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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
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.
— Lawrence E. Corbridge
Prophets foretell the future;sages prepare for it. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
— Martin Luther
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
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
— Anzia Yezierska
Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
— Fernando Pessoa
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
The well-adjusted make poor prophets.
— Eric Hoffer
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.
— Karen Marie Moning
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
— Maurice Strong
He just hoped Meg leading the way didn't mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.
— Anne Bishop
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
— Horace Walpole
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
— Neil Gaiman
The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
— Randolph Bourne
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
— Anatole France
In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
— Maimonides
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
— Eugene H. Peterson
Only the prophets see the obvious.
— Nelson Rodrigues
Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.
— Anonymous
What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets
— Adolph Saphir
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
— Christopher Hitchens
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
— Dylan Thomas
And so it came to pass, as you would imagine, since only the successful prophets are remembered.
— Hilary Mantel
While people pray in temples, God sends prophets with unacceptable appearances and by doing so easily selects the elect
— Daniel Marques
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
— Annie Besant
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
— Philip Berrigan
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
— Karen Armstrong
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
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
— John Vance Cheney
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
The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions
— Swami Vivekananda
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
— Elisabeth Elliot
This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.
— Brent Weeks
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
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
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
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
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
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
— Bill Vaughan
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
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
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
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
What then is the Word of God which gives us life; what but the law, the prophets, and the gospel? Anyone
— John Calvin
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 false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
— Ezra Taft Benson
