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Quotes About Prophecy

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
~ Jean Giraudoux
There are five incomplete phenomena (or unripe fruits). The incomplete experience of death is sleep; an incomplete form of prophecy is dream; the incomplete form of the world to come is the Sabbath; the incomplete form of the heavenly light is the orb of the sun; the incomplete form of heavenly wisdom is the Torah.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
In despair and extreme distress, men and women prophesy the downfall of their enemies and the victory of their own cause, simply to vent their rage or indignation, to strengthen their resistance, to amass courage in the face of death.
~ Ágnes Heller
Had [Shakespeare] put into the mouths of his heroes only prophecies that were later confirmed, he would have made a case for the total predictability of history. The false prophets are there for a purpose; they testify to the unpredictability of the historical future.
~ Ágnes Heller
All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill.
~ Alan Cohen
Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Thus, metaphysically, Kalki will destroy everything, even death. He will destroy all structures so that none exist. In other words, he will herald Pralaya.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The authority of this poor child will grow (Isa. 9:7). It will encompass all the earth, and knowingly or unknowingly, all human generations until the end of the ages will have to serve it.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Según esto, cuando vean que está establecida en el lugar santo la abominación desoladora que predijo el Profeta Daniel (quien lea esto, nótelo bien):
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Jerusalén: He aquí que a ti vendrá tu Rey el Justo, el Salvador: Él vendrá pobre, y montado en un asna y su pollino.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
The prophecy of doom is made to avert its coming, and it would be the height of injustice to later deride the 'alarmists' because 'it did not turn out to be so bad after all'—to have been wrong may be their merit.
~ Andrew Lakoff
Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.
~ Andrew Pyper
The maltreated child cries 'I hurt.' Unheard or unheeded, that cry becomes prophecy.
~ Andrew Vachss
Lilit's path was to be prepared by 'sixty women wearing gold crowns, who would fill the river valleys with blood.'" "Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Anyone,' Avallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He who has spilt blood and he who has drunk blood,' the girl said, her head still lowered, 'shall pay in blood. Within three days one shall die in the other, and something shall die in each. They shall die inch by inch, piece by piece… And when finally the iron-shod clogs wear out and the tears dry, then the last shreds will pass. Even that which never dies shall die.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Mówi Ã…Å¡wiÄ™ta KsiÄ™ga - rozwrzeszczaÅ' siÄ™ na dobre Eyck - ze wynijdzie z otchÅ'ani w??, smok obrzydÅ'y, siedem gÅ'ów i dziesi?? rogów majÄ…cy! A na grzbiecie jego zasiÄ…dzie niewiasta w purpurach i szkarÅ'atach, a puchar zÅ'oty bÄ™dzie w jej dÅ'oni, a na czole jej wypisany bÄ™dzie znak wszelkiego i ostatecznego kurewstwa! - Znam jÄ…! - ucieszyÅ' siÄ™ Jaskier. - To Cilia, ?ona wójta Sommerhaldera!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath     The
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
A predire il futuro sono buoni tutti. E lo fanno tutti, perché è facilissimo. La vera arte è predirlo in maniera giusta.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Take it,' hisses DomDaniel. 'But I will be back for it. I will be back with the seventh of the seventh.
~ Angie Sage
Petroc Trelawney.
~ Angie Sage
Ze werden verwelkomd door een snerpende gil. Marcia sprong op van haar plaats aan de tafel in de Geheime Kamer en liet een dik boek met voorspellingsformules op haar voet vallen... 'Septimus!' krijste Marcia. Ze schopte de voorspellingsformules een eind weg en stoof naar de Spiegel. 'O, Septimus, Septimus!' Zodra hij uit de Spiegel tevoorschijn stapte sloeg ze haar armen om hem heen en zwierde hem in de rondte, tot zijn grote verbijstering, want Marcia deed niet aan knuffelen.
~ Angie Sage
What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored.
~ Nostradamus