Quotes About Prophecy

The world will hear my name." When he spoke again, it was so quiet that Kokchu had to strain to hear him. "This is not a time of death, shaman. We are one people and there will be no more battles between us. I will summon us all. Cities will fall to us, new lands will be ours to ride. Women will weep and I will be pleased to hear it.

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

In some ways, negative self-talk can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as an athlete is more likely to make the shot after visualizing making it, she's also more likely to miss it after visualizing a miss. Your words, whether externally spoken or internally absorbed, shape your future.

I wanted to talk to her about Virgil's prophecy.

the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly as in the first century. Christians in the medieval and modern periods continued to embrace these activities of the Spirit. It is, in fact, cessationism that is not well documented in earlier history; it seems no coincidence that it arose only in a culture dominated by anti-supernaturalism.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.

People only use this prophecy to sell books and movies in Hollywood. On the Mayan calendar, this day is the end of an age. In the end of the age, the prophecy says that the people will have ceased to live as human beings, and something big will happen, and the people will see each other again. I

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

Finally, there's the often disregarded but equally important psychological age. Age can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe affects your behavior, and how you behave affects your reality.

Apocalypses always kick off at the witching hour.

Apocalypses always kick off at the witching hour. That's something you know now.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

When single shines the triple sun, What was sundered and undone Shall be whole, the two made one By Gelfling hand, or else by none.

The notion of general devastation had for Maria a certain sedative effect (the rattlesnake in the playpen, that was different, that was particular, that was punitive), suggested an instant in which all anxieties would be abruptly gratified, and between the earthquake prophecy and the marijuana and the cheerful detachment of the woman whose house was in the Tajunga Wash, she felt a kind of resigned tranquility.

And now the Old Man recited the prophecy of the Seeress: The Cradle fell an age ago, but Fire and Folk shall raise her In just twelve days, at End of Worlds; a gift within the sepulchre. But the key to the gate is a child of hate, a child of both and neither. And nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever.

What is your future, son of a king?' he heard Torina say. Landen smiled. 'Ask your crystal, daughter of a queen.' She traced his eyebrow with a finger. 'My crystal never tells me what I can see with my own eyes.

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. (Isaiah 46:10)

after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" W.B. Yeats - from 'The Second Coming

Surely some revelation is at hand.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.