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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.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

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.

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

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet.

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

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 prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets

A charlatan walked as a prophet, and changed the world of sheep in his wake, and all that while, God watched with blind eyes, helpless…

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality.

A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.