Prophet Quotes

605 Prophet quotes by 401 unique authors

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you… — Daniel Quinn
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans
We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many… — Nizar Qabbani
I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like… — Jack Kerouac
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. — Unknown Author
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have… — William Shakespeare
In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency… — Sheri L. Dew
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over… — Sam Harris
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role… — Dan Brown
Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in… — Robert Rankin
You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a… — Christopher Moore
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi
And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher....… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet) — Khalil Gibran
In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do… — Neal A. Maxwell
Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet. — Marjane Satrapi
There is a golden thread that runs through every account of faith from the beginning of the world to the present time. Abraham, Noah, the… — Thomas S. Monson
You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to… — Jean Vanier

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