Quotes About Prophecy

No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast.

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee… lowly, and riding upon an ass.

O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest.

The hallowed Hodegetria has failed; the Mother of God has forsaken them; the beast of the apocalypse rises from the sea. The Antichrist scratches at the gate. Time is a circle, Licinius used to say, and every circle eventually must close.

Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die

I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say. The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.

A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach." Jessica

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This … rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

Ljudi koji u proro?anstvu traže budu?nost zapravo žele znati kakva ?e biti cijena kitovog krzna idu?e godine ili nešto sli?no banalno. Nitko stvarno ne želi imati život predvidiv u svakom trenutku.

la predicción es una consecuencia natural del oleaje del presente

The Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see," went the prophecy.

Kynes had said: "…the shortening of the way." In the old tongue, the phrase translated as "Kwisatz Haderach.

Mapes obeyed, trembling. The eyes without whites stared at Jessica. "You are ours," she muttered. "You are the One." There came another sound of unloading in the entry. Swiftly, Mapes grabbed the sheathed knife, concealed it in Jessica's bodice. "Who sees that knife must be cleansed or slain!" she snarled. "You know that, my Lady!" I know it now, Jessica thought.