Prophets Quotes

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Destroyed, Armed, Victorious

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli

Powerful, Lose, Conquerors

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

God, Men, Truth

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dreams, Dream, Shall

We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Charles Spurgeon

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Promise, Messiah

Jesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph Addison

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, Men, Death

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes

Men, Science, Nothing

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Compromise, Message, Diplomats

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
Saint Patrick

God, Words, Shall

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, Love, Faith

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono

Lonely, True, Sense

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

Great, Islam, Past

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Noam Chomsky

Call, Bible, False

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Religion, Men, Wise

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

Learned, Wait, Coffee

Fear prophets 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.
Umberto Eco

Truth, Fear, Die

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole

Sure, Wisest, Event

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Margaret Walker

Age, Today, Evil

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
Bill Vaughan

Prediction, Delivers, Disappears

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
Buffalo Bill

Good, Men, Future

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
Tommy Chong

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

Silence, Words, Written

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

Human, Reason, Whole

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Faith, Greatest, Long

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
Karen Armstrong

Human, Expression, Danger

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