Top 100 Quotes About Prophecy
#3. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#5. She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.
Graham Greene
#6. But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. They do it without regard to rhyme or reason.
Mark Twain
#7. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
Stefan Emunds
#8. Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.
Tim LaHaye
#9. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sam Walton
#10. The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.
Robert Anthony
#11. As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Rudyard Kipling
#12. Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.
Kaylin McFarren
#13. "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight."
Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."
Michelle Paver
#14. If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
M.F. Moonzajer
#15. You two are perfect together. And one day ... one day your children will change everything.
G.A. Aiken
#16. God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
Stephen King
#17. If a man's kiss burns like fire, his love will be true, but if his kiss burns like ice...his love will bring pain and ruin.
Miriam Minger
#18. Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'
James Randi
#19. I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Graham Cooke
#20. The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
Stefan Emunds
#21. The Islamic State's leaders proclaimed the establishment of God's kingdom on earth, called the caliphate. Prophecy was fulfilled, they said, and Judgment Day approached.
William McCants
#22. A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.
Laura Beck
#23. It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Suzanne Young
#24. The Lawyers of Fate demand a loophole in every prophecy.
Terry Pratchett
#25. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Paul Graham
#26. In a world of prophecy and war, where so much of my life followed a path laid out by duty and destiny,Tristan had enough strength to give me what no one else could. The one precious thing I needed the most. A choice.
Emma Raveling
#27. Thank God I didn't have to see his smug face. Sometimes, I wished I had a pie that I could smash into it. Well, if by pie I meant anvil, then yes. I smiled at the visual. I really was sick.
Emily Cyr
#28. Study prophecies when they are become histories.
Thomas Browne
#29. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.
Rick Riordan
#30. We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth.
Terry Collins
#31. There is often a prophetic word in the words of a prophet, but not everything said is true prophecy.
Iverna Tompkins
#32. Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?"
Oberon "Poochism"
A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?"
O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
Kevin Hearne
#33. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.
Mike Bickle
#34. But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?"
Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.
Rick Riordan
#35. An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
Horace Walpole
#36. Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes
#37. You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right? - Sam
Rick Riordan
#39. The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
Dennis Kucinich
#40. In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Herbert Simon
#41. My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
James Russell Lowell
#42. A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
Vandana Shiva
#44. Thoughts have power, influencing humanity's collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the better - or damn it forever.
Diane Shauer
#45. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark
Criss Jami
#46. I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out
Jay-Z
#47. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?
Yuval Noah Harari
#48. The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Baruch Spinoza
#49. So, it's the ever popular Firstborn Child of Doom prophecy,huh, ice-boy? How very cliche. Why can't it ever be the third nephew twice removed who's fated to destroy the worls?
Iron Prophecy: The Iron Fey~ Puck
Julie Kagawa
#50. Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.
Nostradamus
#51. Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.
Rick Riordan
#52. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.
Lloyd Alexander
#53. People need hope Michael, as much as they need a leader. You and Gabe are the answer to both of those things. You'll lead the people of earth to victory and Gabe will give them the hope they need to keep going, Mirada said, her voice sensitive, yet unwavering.
Wendy Owens
#54. Oppression has no logic
just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
Gloria Steinem
#55. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
#56. Two types of prophecies exist. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be prevented. We can't know which is which.
Emlyn Chand
#57. Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.
Kevin DeYoung
#58. Take it as a lie - or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction.
H.G.Wells
#59. Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two ... Gods, that would be embarrassing.
Rick Riordan
#60. The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.
Robert D. Hales
#61. Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham
Walter Brueggemann
#63. Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing
#64. In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#65. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}
Richard Mc Sweeney
#66. Peace of mind always precipitates peace on earth.
Phoenix
#67. When the incarnation of the Dakini marked by the dragon is found by her mirror, the chains of the dragon will melt from the land of snows. Prophecy of a Free Tibet
Daniel Prokop
#68. Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. You left me.
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.
Alyson Noel
#70. Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God. They
John Calvin
#71. I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
Jimmy Carter
#72. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.
Bobby Darnell
#73. 2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due!
Steve Cioccolanti
#75. My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Jodi Picoult
#76. The figure knew that the coming events would begin with this night. The truth of the prophecy would lay a destiny far greater than any known to Dagmarth. A destiny for one child to embrace. It would bring change to this war and Dagmarth.
Joseph J. Miccolis
#77. When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
Arnold Kling
#78. The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.
John Steinbeck
#79. You better hope she doesn't say a word," Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri's nose.
Uri grabbed the finger laughing, "What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy glory?"
"Just shut up," Gabe groaned, pushing the door shut in his friend's face.
Wendy Owens
#80. They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.
Pope Francis
#81. The book's (Bible's Book of Daniel) importance lies principally in understanding of the geographic and political origination of the Antichrist and its (his) inter-relations with other nations ....
Rodney Wegermann
#82. You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.
Tim LaHaye
#83. There was no such thing as destiny, and no such thing as prophecy; there was only matter slamming into other matter like two toy trucks in the hands of a child.
C. Robert Cargill
#84. I must complete my quest or I will die.
H.D. Smith
#85. We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.
Stephen King
#86. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
James A. Baldwin
#89. An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
Marquis De Lafayette
#90. I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
Northrop Frye
#91. Once in the end of the world hath he [Jesus] appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9 26
#92. [On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.
Jeane Dixon
#94. Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ - the modern equivalent of which is Superman!
Eli Of Kittim
#95. She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn't place, but it didn't matter.
He wanted more.
Craved it.
Lisa Kessler
#96. 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
#97. Ossip, I think you are a humbug ... you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet ...
Joseph Conrad
#98. Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it.
Swami Vivekananda
#99. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.
Deborah Harkness
#100. He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three.
George R R Martin
