Top 100 Quotes About Prophets
#1. Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Vance Havner
#2. For false christs and false prophets will arise and o perform signs and wonders, p to lead astray, if possible, q the elect. 23But r be on guard; s I have told you all things beforehand.
Anonymous
#3. Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.
Paul Washer
#5. The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire.
Rumi
#6. We can always be sure of one thing - that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper
#8. He just hoped Meg leading the way didn't mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.
Anne Bishop
#9. If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#11. In this perilous times, we have more preachers of the Word than doers of thw Word. In other words, Not all preachers are doers.
May God may you and I doers of the Word
Abegunde Sunday O.
#12. It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.
Louis Agassiz
#13. Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.
Lawrence E. Corbridge
#14. [Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#15. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
Gene Roddenberry
#16. Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. 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
#19. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
Omar Khayyam
#20. Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90 percent of the Orthodox community perished, among them many who had kept alive an ancient tradition of mysticism and meditation reaching back to the Old Testament world of the prophets.
Diane Ackerman
#21. We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Elisabeth Elliot
#22. Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.
Kool Moe Dee
#23. Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. - Mahatma Gandhi
Philip Yancey
#24. We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Origen
#25. To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.
Amit Ray
#26. Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#27. Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things.
Jonah Books
#28. God is quickly fulfilling today all that He has said in the past through His prophets, and is speaking presently through His ministers and servants. We are embarking upon the time of harvest.
T.D. Jakes
#30. 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.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
Brigham Young
#32. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- MATTHEW 7:15
S.G. Holster
#33. Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
Dylan Thomas
#34. History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H.L. Mencken
#35. By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
Spencer W. Kimball
#36. The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
Billy Graham
#37. Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life.
Marc Chagall
#38. If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.
Sheldon F. Child
#39. 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
#40. If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.
J.M. Synge
#41. I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.
Richard Rohr
#42. It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.
Christina Engela
#43. In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#44. 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
#45. Excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did
Umberto Eco
#46. I think one of the prophets stuttered when he dictated your specs," Jal said, snickering. "Or the gene-splicer was daydreaming about his high-status trueborn love and he botched your programming.
Karen Sandler
#47. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Revelation 22:9
Anonymous
#48. How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord ...
Charles Grandison Finney
#49. Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.
Joel Osteen
#50. There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
Virginia Woolf
#51. We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
Khalil Gibran
#53. 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.
Sheri S. Tepper
#54. Did you know that Judaism is based on paradigm shifts, Henry? First came Abraham, then came Moses. Then came the prophets, then came the rabbis. Pretty amazing stuff. Each iteration, reaching for the godhead. What comes next, Henry? What comes next?
Michael Davidow
#55. We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don't want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.
Paul Washer
#56. not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages as proof of who Jesus is?" In other words, they turned the old argument that had been used in the context of Jewish evangelism around. It's not
Mark Dever
#57. The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
Charles Studd
#58. Ezekiel and his fellow prophets have become my heroes. They were fearless. They literalized metaphors. They turned their lives into protest pieces. They proved that, in the name of truth, sometimes you can't be afraid to take a left turn from polite society and look absurd.
A. J. Jacobs
#59. How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today.
Thomas S. Monson
#60. Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
St. Jerome
#61. The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#62. There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
Fernando Pessoa
#63. What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.
Frank Harris
#64. Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.
Omar Khayyam
#65. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel
#66. Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.
Sheri Dew
#67. When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
Ostad Elahi
#68. What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets
Adolph Saphir
#69. We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Sophie Swetchine
#70. If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
Wilford Woodruff
#71. 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
#72. God's eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets
L. Tom Perry
#73. The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
Ezra Taft Benson
#74. Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.
Bertrand Russell
#76. The true messengers of the Lord are always rejected by the majority of the people, who prefer to listen to the false prophets preach a message of peace and prosperity. Thus it is today as well.
Benjamin Baruch
#77. There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
Maimonides
#78. No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God).
Reza Aslan
#79. The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets, apostles, and inspired men. Whenever the Lord had a people on the earth that he acknowledged as such, that people were led by revelation.
Wilford Woodruff
#80. The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.
Charles Manson
#81. 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
#82. And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!
John Barth
#83. Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT
Anne Carson
#84. There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
Billy Joel
#85. The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is ... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
#87. There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
George A. Smith
#88. I believe we're headed to an Elijah/Jezebel showdown on the Earth, not just in America but all over the globe, and the main warriors will be the prophets of Baal versus the prophets of God, and there will be no middle ground.
Lou Engle
#89. All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. 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
#91. Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.
Clinton Lee Scott
#92. Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas Huxley
#93. At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
Denis Diderot
#94. But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.
Justin Martyr
#95. Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.
Benjamin Jowett
#96. When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.
Henry B. Eyring
#97. No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest
Robin Hobb
#98. Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
Joan D. Chittister
#99. The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.
Calvin Coolidge
#100. Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.
Harold B. Lee
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