Definition of Prophecy

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Prophecy

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.

Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

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Prophecy Quotations

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil Armstrong

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Lane Allen

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick

Prophecy Translations

prophecy in Afrikaans is voorspelling
prophecy in Dutch is profetie, voorspelling, voorzegging
prophecy in German is Prophezeiung, Weissagung
prophecy in Latin is oraculum

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