Quotes About Prophet

The baby was restless, and I was scared. It was almost time. I was so tired, I almost wanted to die. For a long time, because he was in solitary, I had not been able to see Fonny. I had seen him on this day. He was so skinny; he was so bruised: I almost cried out. To whom, where? I saw this question in Fonny's enormous, slanted black eyes–– eyes that burned, now, like the eyes of a prophet. Yet, when he grinned, I saw, all over again, my lover, as though for the first time.

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

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.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

GLOSS. Secondly, the Evangelic doctrine has sublimity of strength; whence the Apostle says, The Gospel is the power of God to the salvation of all that believe. (Rom. 1:16.) The Prophet also shews this in the foregoing words, Lift up thy voice with might; which further marks out the manner of evangelic teaching, by that raising the voice which gives clearness to the doctrine.

not everyone who speaks in the spirit is a prophet, but only if he exhibits the Lord's ways … if any prophet teaches the truth, yet does not practise what he teaches, he is a false prophet'.

A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.

The greatest prophet on earth can give men no more than a watchword, and the vaguer the watchword the greater the prophet.

In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.

C. S. Lewis observed, if Christ is not God, then he could not have been an exemplary prophet or a great moral teacher, because he claimed to be God. If he was not who he said he was, then he was either a liar or a lunatic, hardly a great moral teacher or prophet.

Don't even get me started on James Baldwin!" Esteban wailed. "The man . . . the prophet . . . the poet laureate who wrote the liturgy of his entire race, and his people won't celebrate his queer spirit!

He was no longer innocent. With this slaughter he became the killer Decker had persuaded him he was. In murdering the prophet he made the prophecy true.

The Outsider is primarily a critic, and if a critic feels deeply enough about what he is criticizing, he becomes a prophet.

The roles of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and Mary are similar. The true line of the Prophet 'Isa (Jesus) and his real teaching passing through Mary and into Europe mirrors the true line of the Imams (who propagated the real teachings of the Prophet Muhammad) who issued from the womb of Fatima. Fatima is regarded by some Sûfîs and theologians as the first spiritual head (qutb) of the Sûfî fellowship.

In Sufism, the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) has a hidden Reality. The Sufis call this Reality 'al nur al-muhammadi,' or the Light of Muhammad. This Light is the paradigm of creation, the template of the whole natural world.

Islamic Tasawwuf traditionally has its origin in the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and Imam Ali ('Alaihi Assalam) with the Forty Companions. The forerunners of Islamic Tasawwuf are the Ahlul Bayt, the family of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), and the 'insan kamils,' the perfect human beings, who by following this road have held a light to our world and to humanity.

Esoterically, if it were not for Fatima (Mercy), Allâh would never have sent Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and the Qur'an to humanity.

Fatima was given the title of "az-Zahraa" which means "the Resplendent One." That was because of her beaming face, which seemed to radiate light. However, others, who must keep their beliefs prudently concealed, know the Prophet Muhammad's daughter as "Fatima Fatir". In Her own sacred words She utters the truth, "There is no God beside me, neither in divinity nor humanity, neither in the Heavens nor on earth, outside of me, who am Fatima - Creator.

It is stated that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was taken up into heaven (while he was still alive) and saw angels dwelling on various heavenly levels performing specific movements. This should be a profound sign of the spiritual significance and importance of the body and its motions. It is one indication of the sacredness of the body and the truly profound meaning of certain motions and gestures of that body.

There is no prophet that preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics...

If there was never any Islam, if there was never a prophet Muhammad, that the relationship between the west and the middle east today would probably not be all that different.

The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to 'beware of self-righteousness' and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel 'to take them upon our shoulders.