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Quotes About Prophecy

For once I myself saw with my own eyes      the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage,          and when the boys said to her,              Ã¢â'¬Å"Sibyl what do you want?"          she replied, "I want to die." T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
~ Unknown
I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.
~ Steven Wright
How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.
~ Rudolf Hess
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.
~ Carl Jung
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
~ Alexander Pope
Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.
~ Tim LaHaye
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.
~ Ellen G. White
Dreams sometimes foretell the future.
~ Mickey Hart
She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.
~ Joni Mitchell
I've seen the future and it's murder.
~ Leonard Cohen
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.
~ Mary Stewart
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
~ William Shakespeare
... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn; To man of every age and clime, The oldest chronicler of time.
~ John Banister Tabb
Since the Lord is speaking directly to you through journaling, I believe journaling amounts to receiving a personal prophecy. The New Testament limits prophecy to three categories: "edification, exhortation, and comfort" (1 Cor. 14:3).
~ Unknown
Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that "at the end of seven hundred years the laurel would again turn green,"114 implying that the principles of "the true Christianity" would return to the world's attention.
~ Unknown
The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.
~ Martin Luther
The Jews supposed that the Messiah would be the sovereign of the world. In reality, He was to become the Savior of the world.
~ Martin Luther
And Dan. 8:25 also writes concerning the Antichrist that he will kill the majority of people not through poverty but through an abundance of everything.
~ Martin Luther
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
~ Bible
Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born. The wind knew. It was the first of June, but cold gusts bit at the hilltop citadelle as fiercely as deepest winter, shaking the windows with curses and winding through drafty halls with warning whispers. There was no escaping what was to come.
~ Mary E. Pearson
From the loins of Morrighan, Hope will be born. On its heels came a whispered name that was always just beyond my reach, not yet mine to hear, but I knew that one day my children's children or the ones who came after would hear it. One day hope would have a name.
~ Mary E. Pearson
From the loins of Morrighan, Hope will be born.
~ Mary E. Pearson
De súbito sintió el intenso flujo de energía que se desata cuando los instintos reprimidos son sancionados por una causa. Abajo Hamlet, arriba Antonio. «Sobre tus heridas yo profetizo».
~ Mary Renault