Top 100 A Prophet Quotes
#1. Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
George R R Martin
#2. Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth? ...
John Geddes
#3. It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." - L. Sprague de Camp
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. Until you irritate some people, you don't have a base that waits to your every prophetic word. You cannot be a prophet to all.
Assegid Habtewold
#5. When I break a rock open with my pick, I'm a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been. And I always, always want to know more.
Christina Dodd
#6. To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich
#8. Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'
Ibn Ishaq
#9. To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Gordon Brown
#10. James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
Mike Jay
#11. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
D.R. Silva
#12. Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
#13. Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#14. The body of Christ needs to mature until we can distinguish a true prophetic word from merely the word of a prophet. Many modern Christians are afraid to reject anything spoken by one who claims to be a prophet or prophetess.
Iverna Tompkins
#15. I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#16. Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'
Timothy Keller
#17. The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile
#18. What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth ...
John Geddes
#19. Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?
Sam Smith
#20. A prophet. A shaman. Motivated extraordinarily, thus extraordinarily motivating. Taking the same drugs they took, which he himself provided. Though of course he didn't actually take them. If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics.
William Gibson
#22. Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
Orson F. Whitney
#23. It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.
Martin Jay
#24. She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.
Euripides
#25. There is a very important theological distinction between being a prophet and being a jerk. What burns deeply in the heart of a true prophet is not just anger but love.
John Ortberg Jr.
#28. A prophet has no honor in his own country..
Anonymous
#29. To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
Anne Carson
#30. I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.
David Bowie
#31. The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.
Geraldine Brooks
#32. Now, God is not raising up just a prophet or a judge, but everyone who comes to Him
Sunday Adelaja
#33. I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.
Vladimir Sorokin
#34. A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
Annie Besant
#35. There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.
Martin Luther
#36. The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
Keith Olbermann
#37. Hard work is a prophet; it foretells success. Diligence is a prophet; it foretells great success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela
#41. They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.
Kevin Hearne
#42. A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#43. Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.
Tom Lehrer
#44. You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda)
It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
Czeslaw Milosz
#46. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#47. The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?
Marilynne Robinson
#48. The profound experience of childbirth does not produce profound people. If this were so, the guy with ten kids would be a prophet and priests would be out of work.
Anthony Marais
#49. No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!
Janeane Garofalo
#50. I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.
Harold B. Lee
#51. If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
Brigham Young
#52. People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
Sun Ra
#53. Everybody thinks they're a prophet. They must, or nobody would get married. Or maybe at a 50% divorce rate, only half the people are fortune tellers. Probably the men.
Jarod Kintz
#54. I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#55. William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
Stanley Hauerwas
#56. No one is a prophet in his own land. We always tend to value what comes from afar, never recognizing the beauty around us.
Paulo Coelho
#57. 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.
Sun Ra
#58. There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.
Richard Rohr
#59. If there comes among you a prophet saying 'Let us return to the darkness,' you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light.
David Litwack
#60. I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.
Wilbur Wright
#61. Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#62. We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying 'These things are.' It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, 'Why cannot these things be?
G.K. Chesterton
#63. I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
Wilbur Smith
#64. 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.
Christopher Moore
#65. Who was I to tell a prophet what his prophecies meant?
Monica McGurk
#66. A prophet's task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day. And Jeremiah does this better than anyone.
Kathleen Norris
#67. There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth ... no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God
Joseph Fielding Smith
#68. I know that Lorenzo Snow was God's mouthpiece upon the earth, that he was the representative of the Lord, and that he was, in very deed, a prophet of God.
Heber J. Grant
#69. Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution!
Nik Ripken
#70. I'm a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires.
Brandon Sanderson
#71. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Matthew McConaughey
#72. I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#73. A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
Sun Ra
#74. Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#75. A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. In a medical sense I'm a prophet. But I'm not unique. I mean there are many prophets in many different vocations. I happen to be one of them, without sounding too egotistical I am a pioneer. I am doing pioneering stuff in neurosurgery. There is stuff that I'm doing that no-one else is doing.
Charles Teo
#77. I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
Bob Dylan
#78. Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]
Allen Ginsberg
#79. In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#81. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#82. 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
#83. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.
Megan McKenna
#84. I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.
Josef Albers
#85. Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.
Geraldine Brooks
#86. The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.
Anthony Burgess
#87. Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
Tahar Rahim
#89. Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
Timothy Keller
#90. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.
Daniel Marques
#91. In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
John Ruskin
#92. I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Herbert Croly
#93. Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
Akbar
#94. In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.
Frank Zappa
#95. He relayed a saying from a story his father used to tell him: A child is a child when he's a child, even if he's a prophet.
Malala Yousafzai
#96. Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Arsene Wenger
#97. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
#98. There is often a prophetic word in the words of a prophet, but not everything said is true prophecy.
Iverna Tompkins
#99. The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.
Moses
#100. In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
Joseph Smith Jr.
