Quotes About Prophecy

Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Your patriarchal blessing will give you hints of things to come, warnings about things to avoid, promises of blessings available, and gifts to equip you to fulfill your life's mission. Nevertheless, many of your life's events will go unmentioned in your blessing.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

You left me." Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past. He's prophesying our future.

Most aren't trying to kill you, unfortunately. They're trying to bed you, mistress." "Why?" "Probably because of the prophecy," said Nandi. "Prophecy," I said dryly. "Wonderful. Now there's a prophecy." "Mistress," she said hastily, "had you asked us if there was a prophecy-" "Yeah, yeah. I know. What's this one say? That I'm a good lay?

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the suns themselves begin to die.

Though controversial, there are examples even in the ancient manuscripts, the Bible, perhaps overlooked by the casual reader, which show that things did not always come to pass as they were predicted by some of the most well-known prophetic voices. To understand the dynamics of these prophetic predictions properly, you must understand that God's actions are not always His original intentions.

The first went down beneath the oak, stung by the taste of steel in his blood. The second on holy ground did fall, stained with the cries of his folly. The third in the dust and salt did fail, sent back to his master, a silent warning given." Jenks looked up, clearly not seeing me. "This ground is ours. So it is said with broken wing, poisoned blood, and our unburied dead.

The Aztecs had believed the world would end in one of four ways: earthquake, fire, flood, or jaguars falling from the sky.

The Aztecs had believed the world would end in one of four ways: earthquake, fire, flood, or jaguars falling from the sky. Here there would be no fire. Nor earthquake nor flood, now that he thought of it. Leaving only the jaguars.

I know exactly what you are now. I know what you will be - Lothaire

Bringing it, Nïx the Ever-Knowing, Soothsayer Without Equal, General of the New Army of Vertas.

The soothsayer shrugged, flustering her bat. "Some details are above your feygrade.

Especially since Balery told me my sons will be mates to your future daughters.

Recently, he'd consulted the soothsayer Nïx about his future. She'd replied with a grin, "It's a doozy.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

Prophecy is True and Sacred and should never be mishandled by people who have no business speaking about Sacred Things in GOD'S Name.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware of possibilities we don't normally consider. Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it.

most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?