Quotes About Prophets

All the prophets, including Jesus, are dead but their names are still so fresh in our minds. Buddha, Socrates, etc. were also such great men. But now is a good time to cultivate our minds.

Boldness is something that you cannot take away from the prophets and geniuses.

Only the prophets are the true disciples of God.

Prophets are geniuses. Not of teaching some useless superstitions, but of conquering the hearts and bending the minds.

Remember that, most of the prophets began as poor people, but they did not die in the same state as they began.

Since the prophets have full confidence in the divine One, you must put full energy on the improvement of your soul.

Socialism is and will forever remain to be the only true religion of all the prophets. It's the struggle of brotherhood.

The cosmic consciousness is linked with your soul or with one tapped in their intuitive abilities. All the geniuses can be classified into this last stage of the mind and only few people have achieved that experience of the highest type of intelligence. Some we call gods, prophets, saints and others are called geniuses.

The main job of the prophets is to guide and re-kindle the lost souls from going astray.

Trust not these prophets of today, who are still using the same old Bible as a referencing point.

But what then is this "righteousness of God"? In Israel's scriptures, to which Paul explicitly appeals in 3:21b ("the law and the prophets bore witness to it"), God's "righteousness" is not simply God's status of being morally upright. It is, more specifically, God's faithfulness to the covenant—the covenant not only with Abraham and Israel, but through Israel to the wider world.

The hope of Israel, expressed variously in the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms, was not for a rescue operation that would snatch Israel (or humans or the faithful) from the world, but for a rescue operation that would be for the world, an operation through which redeemed humans would play once more the role for which they were designed.

But if Jesus is raised from the dead, then the scriptures have reached their goal in him, and it's now time for the moment the psalmists and prophets longed to see, when the nations of the earth will bring their treasures in loyalty and obedience to God's anointed king, Israel's Messiah. The

Paul's response was to quote the prophets once more, this time his regular text, Isaiah 49: "I have set you for a light to the nations, so that you can be salvation-bringers to the end of the earth.

And, since the exile was the result of Israel's idolatry (no devout Jew would have contested the point, since the great prophets had made it so clear), what they needed was not just a new Passover, a new rescue from slavery to pagan tyrants. They needed forgiveness.

we can understand only too well how it was that the Israelite people of old, and the Jewish people of Jesus's day, could very easily forget that their national dream and God's purposes for them might actually be two quite different things. The prophets existed to remind them of the fact; but prophets were easy to ignore or forget. Or kill.

Speaking on not always understanding the counsel of God's prophets, nor finding it easy to take] ... even though it is true that there must be an "opposition in all things," none of us has the personal obligation to provide that opposition.

aceptas que Dios es tu propia conciencia de ser – como lo hicieron Jesús y los profetas – transformarás tu mundo con la comprensión de que "Yo y mi padre somos Uno".

The pessimists prophesy a future of rubble, but the optimistic prophets are even more horrifying when they proclaim the future city where baseness and boredom dwell, in intact beehives.

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, and so on.

In the same way, metrics can record the frequency of our church attendance, the regularity of our Bible reading and the exact amount of our tithing, but they can never gauge the genuineness of any of them, or whether they are any better than "the noise of the solemn assemblies" against which the prophets fulminated.

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

Souraya thought those days that she knew so many songs about the misery of love because pain kept love within the boundaries of time, and knowable, whereas what she was experiencing passed beyond the horizon of birth and death; it was like the eternal life the prophets spoke of. A gesture, a kiss, a task, a sentence had a golden elemental endlessness, like the scenes in the murals painted in the island houses.

If you want to understand why the church is so enthralled with Israel, you need to understand that the church is waiting, with bated breath, for these things the prophets have declared to at last come to pass. Many in the church understand that God has tied himself to Israel, and will renew that tie in the days to come.