Merchants Quote by Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

“The Prophet was a true friend to the king. Our true friends are those who tell us the truth, even when we don't want…

— Robby Charters

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths,…

— Origen

“A prophet is not a prophet to everyone in every place; he or she is a prophet to someone in some place.”

— Dan McCollam

“How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.”

— Anonymous

“...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...”

— John Geddes

“A prophet or prophetess then, is a spokesperson for God, one who hears the voice of the Holy Spirit and speaks or pens God’s…

— James W. Goll

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“...the prophets were in it for profits.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and…

— Noam Chomsky

“Merchants saw the entire human species as potential customers; conquerors envisioned all humans as potential subjects; and prophets saw all humans as potential believers.”

— FastReads

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the…

— Noam Chomsky

“What is a 'false prophet'? Those who lie by attributing personal biases to divine source.”

— Leland Lewis