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Quotes About Prophesy

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
~ Henry Adams
en España nunca se dice lo que pasa, pero desgraciadamente siempre acaba pasando lo que se dice.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I drive away those who pay to see me by foretelling their futures, and I will foretell yours. You are young now, and strong. But before the world has wound itself ten times more about the sun you shall be less strong, and you shall never regain the strength that is yours now. If you breed sons, you will engender enemies against yourself. If-- Enough! I said. What you are telling me is only the fortune of all men.
~ Gene Wolfe
follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. What did that mean? Love. Aye, yet one must find it before one could follow it. As for spiritual gifts, they would undoubtedly be agreeable possessions though of limited use if they led only to prophesying.
~ Anya Seton
The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.
~ John Price
Lady Theresa prophesied disaster for all concerned, and hoped that when Serena was dying an old maid she would remember these words, and be sorry. Meanwhile she remained her affectionate aunt.
~ Georgette Heyer
un vaticinio tiene más autoridad que un comentario.
~ Enrique Serna
ce vieux Grec...prophétisant l'avenir de cette nation, qui fut toujours un moyen ou un prétexte dans les mains des puissances européennes
~ Eugène Sue
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
~ bible quotes vi
Nostradamus wasn't often right, but he sure was often.
~ Max Gunther
God, help me to hear Your voice speaking to my heart. Give me discernment so I can always distinguish between those who speak Your truth and those who give false prophesies filled either with fear or false hope. Help me to examine what I hear against the teaching of Your Word. Holy Spirit, guide me in all truth just as You have promised. Help me to identify what is from You and what is not.
~ Stormie Omartian
We are fast approaching that moment prophesied by Joseph Smith when he said: 'Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be on the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the verge of destruction.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
The burning of Joan was an attempt to deaden a great deal more than a young woman with pretensions of prophesy. It was also an attempt to eradicate the nascent possibility of agency in a woman, of a possible weakness in the dominant discourse, requiring constant vigilance and cleansing, lest it be uncovered.
~ Françoise Meltzer
Ezekiel chapter 37. The only need of Ezekiel was to be in the Spirit, and while he was in the Spirit it came to him to prophesy to the dry bones and say, "O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord" (Ezek. 37:4). As he prophesies according to the Lord's command he sees an "exceeding great army" rising up about him. The prophet obeyed God's command, and all we have to do is exactly this—obey God. What is impossible with man is possible with God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.
~ St. Augustine
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
~ Bob Dylan
Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.
~ Carl Sagan
The Dark Girl laughed aloud, revealing a gray mouthful of sharp, serrated teeth. "You ask me to prophesy? I am the Mother of Fantasies, the Mother of Faith, Hope, and the Church." De Maillet stared, clutching his ebony cane to his chest. "You are Ignorance.
~ Bruce Sterling
The future's written in water.
~ Carolyn MacCullough
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
~ George Macaulay Trevelyan
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
~ Beilby Porteous
notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.
~ Jack Kerouac