Quotes About Prophecy

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.

The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.

The blood of the just will be demanded of London, burnt by fire in the year '66. The ancient Lady will fall from her high place, and many of the same sect will be killed.

A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

True prophecy will bring forth things new and old out of the Scriptures of truth and will make them living and powerful to us.

The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the shape of wolves; and from this source are those wolves sprung. The saying runs thus: from this race shall come one that shall be mightiest of all; he that is named Moon-Hound; he shall be filled with the flesh of all those men that die, and he shall swallow the moon, and sprinkle with blood the heavens and all the air; thereof shall the sun lose her shining, and the winds in that day shall be unquiet and roar on every side.

The past is the mirror that reflects the future.

May all future lairds of Clan MacLarin live out their days knowing they are marked to love, but not to live. Until a laird of the MacLarin line lives to see his firstborn draw breath, this curse shall never be broken.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

that the closed mem6 signified 600 years. But the time was foretold clearly, while the manner was figurative.

What kind of man had the Messiah to be, since through him the sceptre was to remain for ever in Judah, but at his coming the sceptre was to be removed from Judah? To ensure that seeing they should not see and hearing they should not hear

Margaret McDonald, a fifteen-year-old Christian prophet, declared in 1830 that the Antichrist was Robert Owen, a cofounder of socialism.

Lord, thy children are jaded, and their ears go flat with sound. Marveling in the thunder rumbling of thy voice no longer - they hear not, and the omens of the white gull and the flayed oak are as naught to their purblind sight. The prophecy in the thunder, the foreshadowings of the leaves quivering white, the dismay of the grass bent in the merciless wind are naught, lord.