Prophets Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

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.

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.

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

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

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.

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

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

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.

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

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

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

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.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

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.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.