Quotes About Prophecy

When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before"; and the only reason his prophecy did not come true was the constitutional restraint of the nation-state, while today our only hope that it will not come true in the future is based on the constitutional restraints of the American republic plus the technological restraints of the nuclear age.

When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

The Torah, then, was compact, transferable history, law, wisdom, poetic chant, prophecy, consolation and self-strengthening counsel. Just as the sanctuary could be erected in safety and dismantled in crisis, the speaking scroll was designed to survive even incineration, because the scribes who had composed and edited it had memorised its oral traditions and its texts as part of their basic education.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.

Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

That one"—he nodded toward the closed door—"will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

The Mexicans relate that, shortly before our arrival in New Spain, there appeared a figure in the heavens of a circular form, like a carriage wheel, the colours of which were a mixture of green and red. Shortly after a second, of a similar form, made its appearance, which moved towards the rising of the sun, and joined the first.

Seven kings will die, she had said, seven kings and the women you love. And Alfred's son will not rule and Wessex will die and the Saxon will kill what he loves and the Danes will gain everything, and all will change and all will be the same.

Due re saliranno alla Rocca di Cadarn - profetizzò - ma a regnare sarà un uomo che non è re. I morti si sposeranno, quel che è perso ritornerà alla luce. e una lama verrà portata alla gola di una bambina.

I charge more for prophecy," Offa said, "on the grounds that what is worthless must be made expensive.

If we do nothing then Wessex will spread like a plague. There'll be priests everywhere." We seek the future. We stare into its fog and hope to see a landmark that will make sense of fate.

but men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.

The Christians tell us we move inexorably towards better times, towards their god's kingdom on earth, but my gods only promise the chaos of the world's ending, and a man only has to look around him to see that everything is crumbling, decaying, proof that the chaos is coming. We are not climbing Jacob's ladder to some heavenly perfection, but stumbling downhill towards Ragnarok.

as Shakespeare says: "What's to come is still unsure." Even the shrewdest men are apt to be wildly astray if they prophecy so much as 10 years ahead. Some people will consider this doctrine immoral, but after all it is the Gospel which says "take no thought for the morrow.

The Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person." (1 Sam. 10:6)

I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will never believe, even if someone were to explain it to you. Acts 13:41

When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth… . He will also declare to you what is to come. John 16:13

First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts. 2 Peter 3:3

What fascinates me about the character of Alexander the Great is that he seemed to see the future with such clarity and such intensity as to make it virtually impossible that it would not come true—and that he would be the one to make it so.