Quotes About Prophecy

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

The cry for peace will increase according to scripture.

Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

Foreknowledge is power.

We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming.

And on the morning of July 18, an eight-year-old girl living in Bath chose to awaken her aunt, a devout believer in the prophecy, by screaming "Aunt, Aunt, the World's at an end!" The words so startled the poor woman that she fell into a coma, and remained insensate throughout the following day.

In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.

The most important of all limitations on knowledge – creation is that we cannot prophecy: we cannot predict the content of ideas yet to be created, or their effects. This limitation is not only consistent with the unlimited growth of knowledge, it is entailed by it.

Beware the difference between prediction and prophecy. Prophecy purports to know things which cannot be known.

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.

Major Message Women can be given the gift of prophecy. Certainly, one of the most valuable uses of this gift, in addition to fulfilling callings in the Church, would be within the family, knowing by the power of the Spirit what the needs of family members are and will be. We understand that woman's intuition is a form of this gift of the Spirit.

My study of prophecy convinces me that God intends knowledge of future events to help us "occupy" with a sense of urgency until the Lord returns.