Quotes About Prophets

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.

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

Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

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.

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 should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

False prophets like Joe Biden have asked us to sacrifice our lives so that they might deliver us from death.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

God is real. You have a lot of prophets, angels; everything is real, you know. You know me - I'm a deep person, so my mind goes really, really deep.

Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.

Some are exploited by God himself, and they are prophets and saints in this vacuous world.

The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.

We are Jewish soldiers. Our battle orders include the rules of engagement and the Ten Commandments. The computer code of the F-35 and the moral code of the prophets of Israel.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Doing what comes naturally was (and is) no longer the appropriate response in many circumstances that arose in what had become an unnatural environment. It became the major social role of religion to bridge the gap between a human nature developed for one environment and the altered environment in which that nature now had to operate. People had to be persuaded to act unnaturally, as Jesus and other religious prophets would preach.