Prophet Quotes

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

I am not a prophet.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

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.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.