Prophet Quotes
605 quotes by 401 authors
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You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For…
— Khalil Gibran
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
— Khalil Gibran
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Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest,…
— Matthew Henry
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]
— Allen Ginsberg
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My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.†I…
— Elie Wiesel
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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
— Michel Foucault
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We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short…
— Susan Cain
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Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
— Thomas Merton
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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
— Khalil Gibran
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Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
— Karl Marx
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Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
— Neil Gaiman
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
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In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other…
— Roger Zelazny
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s…
— Ann Voskamp
Who Wrote These Prophet Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 605 Prophet Quotes, led by these top contributors: