Quotes About Prophecy

The Weird Sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine. Peace, the charm's wound up.

some day, in a time of shame and trouble, a second great Prophet will arise—a Mahdi who shall lead the faithful nearer God and sustain the religion.

Here I am, Cassandra. And this is my city under ashes. And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons. And this is my head full of doubts.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees. For every thing that can be done in that posture (upon the knees) is better so done than otherwise. For I prophecy that they will understand the blessing and virtue of the rain. For rain is exceedingly good for the human body.

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

According to Josephus, on Cyrus's ceremonial entrance to the city, Daniel (who lived at least until the third year of Cyrus) presented him with the writings of Isaiah that included a letter addressed to Cyrus by name, written 150 years earlier.2 Can you imagine his reaction?

precisely seventy years after the captivity began, just as Jeremiah had predicted. The foundations of the second temple were laid by the spring of 536 BC.

Prophecy is not the study of things to come: prophecy is looking at God's total plan from beginning to end.

Cinda Williams Chima

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

Some said the world would end in 1533. Last year had its adherents too. Why not this year? There is always somebody ready to claim that these are the end times, and nominate his neighbor as the Antichrist.

A man called William Dalyvell, a follower of Merlin and King James, is put into the Tower. He has been spreading a prophecy that the King of Scots will swoop down from the north, expel the Tudors and rule two kingdoms. He also says he has seen an angel. In former ages this would have been a cause for congratulation, but times being what they are, Dalyvell is put on the rack.

He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.

Prince Cardan will be your last born child," the Royal Astrologer said. "He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Not even Achilles will bring all his words to fulfillment.

Your lands will stretch from sea to sea,' she said finally. 'But peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose. Many must die but you yourself are safe from death, except at the hands of your own son.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially when the great man's prophecy was about to apply to him? He

Sometimes stories are just previews of coming truths.

Ptolemy Horoscope

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.