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The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.
— Charles Manson
The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
— Mohsin Hamid
Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.
— Lawrence E. Corbridge
Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.
— Louis Farrakhan
The prophets preach ... that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
— Matthew Fox
The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.
— Russell D. Moore
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.- MATTHEW 7:15 — S.G. Holster
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
— Anzia Yezierska
Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.
— Robert D. Hales
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
— William Shakespeare
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.
— Ezra Taft Benson
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
— Stephen Crane
To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
— Anne Carson
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
— Joan D. Chittister
The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed.
— Billy Graham
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
— Ralph Venning
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
— Herbert Lockyer
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
— H.L. Mencken
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
— Bill Vaughan
Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If prophets are real, they are not leaders but followers.
— M.F. Moonzajer
And evermore the waters worship God;And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves! — Sarah Josepha Hale
Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!(Numbers 11:29)
— Megan McKenna
Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.
— Karen Marie Moning
The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
— Randolph Bourne
Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
— Robert Orben
Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.
— Janny Wurts
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
— J.I. Packer
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
— Yoko Ono
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
— Joan D. Chittister
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
— Mary Augusta Ward
He just hoped Meg leading the way didn't mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.
— Anne Bishop
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
— Friedrich Schiller
Children are prophets of nature.
— Raheel Farooq
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
— Maurice Strong
Old Testament prophets. 'You savvy dis fetish thing?
— William Boyd
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
— Sophie Swetchine
John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
— Leonard Ravenhill
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
— Henry David Thoreau
They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.
— G.K. Chesterton
Some are exploited by God himself, and they are prophets and saints in this vacuous world.
— Fernando Pessoa
Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?
— Yuval Noah Harari
While people pray in temples, God sends prophets with unacceptable appearances and by doing so easily selects the elect
— Daniel Marques
Jesters do often prove prophets.
— Joseph Addison
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
— Frank Herbert
I don't see any difference between a prophet and a soldier; the only difference is prophets were jackals and survived while soldiers fought and died.
— M.F. Moonzajer
If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.
— Sheldon F. Child
Our prayers are prophets.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
— Ronald J. Sider
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
— Gunnar Myrdal
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
— Etgar Keret
There is no God and we are his prophets.
— Cormac McCarthy
This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
— Brent Weeks
Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds.
— Raymond Aron
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
— China Mieville
I've heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It's not an uncommon occupation.
— Emily St. John Mandel
We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets
— Leonard Ravenhill
Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion
— Primo Levi
The world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.
— Mark Driscoll
Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.
— Martin Luther
Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
— Vance Havner
What then is the Word of God which gives us life; what but the law, the prophets, and the gospel? Anyone
— John Calvin
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 ought to live
— Daniel Quinn
More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.
— Gordon R. Dickson
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
— Gene Roddenberry
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 all around.
— Robert Rankin
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
— John Vance Cheney
Mediocre times beget empty prophets
— Albert Camus
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
— Jean Giraudoux
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
— Tommy Chong
The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions
— Swami Vivekananda
