Quotes About Prophecy

you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

The inheritor to the man tie of Macros.

One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god. The idea that loss of credibility is tied to asserting rights over your own body was there all along. But with the real-life Cassandras among us, we can lift the curse by making up our own minds about who to believe and why.

One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god.

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Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single passage of scripture or prophecy about the promised messiah that even hints of his ignominious death, let alone his bodily resurrection.

874 The occultation of the Twelfth Imam, or the Mahdi

Ezekiel declared, "in the center of all nations

derived from Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess who was cursed by the god Apollo always to tell the truth and never to be believed.

if Jesus really was born of a virgin, Joseph's ancestry is irrelevant and cannot be used to fulfil, on Jesus' behalf, the Old Testament prophecy that the Messiah should be descended from David.

Aquellos que hayan visto estas imágenes están condenados a morir a esta misma hora exactamente dentro de una semana

The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything

In the Final Days shall come the Innocent Mage, born to save the world from blood and death. He shall enter the House of the Usurper He shall learn their ways He shall earn their love He shall lay down his life And Jervale's Heir shall know him, and guide him, and enlighten him not.

There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a map. The reason is not that God's holiness in space has suddenly become unworthy of Him or has changed into a heathen ubiquity. The reason is that all prophecy is now fulfilled in Jesus, and God's holiness in space, like all God's holiness, is now called and is Jesus of Nazareth.

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) - one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.