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Quotes About Prophecy

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part
~ Maggie Nelson
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
~ Marcel Proust
Empresa más fácil podemos acometer. Una región hay, si no miente antigua y profética tradición del cielo, hay un mundo, dichosa mansión de un ser nuevo llamado Hombre, que por este tiempo ha debido ser criado semejante a nosotros, inferior en poderío y excelencia, pero más favorecido del Hacedor supremo.
~ John Milton
But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.
~ John Owen
When Pharaoh had a dream he called in the experts and they told him how it was and how it would be in the kingdom, and that was right because he was the kingdom. When some of us have a dream, we take it to an expert and he tells us how it is in the country of ourselves. I had a dream that didn't need an expert. Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
~ John Steinbeck
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
~ Horace Walpole
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
~ Howard Zinn
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
~ Unknown
It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
~ Margaret Walker
As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.
~ Margery Allingham
That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.
~ Marie Brennan
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
What happened once, will happen again...but in a different form. To become a future-teller, one needs only to study history.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
The city of Jerusalem, at the time, was in ruins, but destined to be rebuilt. Thus, Gabriel gave Daniel a mathematical prophecy: (7 + 62) times 7 times 360 = 173,880 days
~ Unknown
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy
~ Unknown
In the 404 verses in Revelation, there are about 278 allusions to the Old Testament.
~ Unknown
One final reason to study Revelation is that it's the only book of the Bible that contains a special blessing for those who read it and keep the things written in it (Revelation 1:3).
~ Unknown
Futurists interpret Revelation 4–22 as describing real people and events yet to appear on the world scene.
~ Unknown
While it is certainly true that Revelation looks ahead and reveals the future, it also looks back and brings together all the threads running through the first 65 books of the Bible.
~ Unknown
Revelation 6–16 is the main section of the Bible that describes the end-times Tribulation. These eleven chapters focus upon the awful judgments of the end times.
~ Unknown
Revelation 20:3 says that Satan is cast into the abyss for 1000 years after the return of Christ to earth "so that he should not deceive the nations any longer." This indicates that deceiving the nations must be one of his main goals during this present age.
~ Unknown