Best 164 quotes in «prophet quotes» category

Yea, I shall return with the tide.

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege too. I am not your slave. I serve Apollo. I don't need Creon to speak for me in public. So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption in your life, to the house you live in, those you live with- who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light! Soon, soon, you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate? What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo? That day you learn the truth about your marriage, the wedding-march that sang you into your halls, the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor! And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children. There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself and every word I've said. No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.

You don't need a prophet to wake you up from your bed; you need no archbishop to describe the size of your spoon for you. Remember, you are in the center of management of your own affairs when the time comes for you to act!

A prophet weeps while others are laughing.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Common sense is the best prophet.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Ezekiel says this, though, he's - God said to the prophet, he said I'm going to cause you to sit where they've sat.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ﷺ

Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life.

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.