Quotes About Prophecy

A prophet is nothing without a new revelation.

All the prophets and messengers have preached, for thousands of years, about the so-called end of the world; instead, they only signified the beginning of a new era.

Egypt belongs to the Egyptians, the true African and black identity, even before Abraham began his prophecy.

God appeared mysterious to Moses as Moses appeared to his people. This is the whole formula of prophecy, some are called gods and some are called geniuses.

People are praised for predicting their date of death. But no one has ever predicted their date of birth.

The only true prophecy is that no one knows anything about the day of judgment.

Here we have it. YHWH is in charge and will establish his own rule over the rest of the world from his throne in Zion. But he will do this through his "anointed," through the one he calls "my son.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

The day will come, brothers and sisters, when we will have other books of scripture which will emerge to accompany the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Presently you and I carry our scriptures around in a "quad"; the day will come when you'll need a little red wagon.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Look upon your desires as the spoken words of God and every word of prophecy of that which you are capable of being. Do not question whether you are worthy or unworthy to realise these desires. Accept them as they come to you. Give thanks for them as though they were gifts. Feel happy and grateful for having received such wonderful gifts. Then go your way in peace.

The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the high tide which lifts you easily off the bar of the senses where you have so long stranded. It lifts the mind into prophecy in the full right sense of the word; and if you have that controlled imagination and absorbed attention which it is possible to attain, you may be sure that all your assumption implies will come to pass.

When your king arrives in a blood-splashed boat and departs in a hurry-leaving behind a favoured kinswoman and her household for whom he demands hospitality, you give it. It doesn't matter that she's only ten. It matters that she's the subject of a prophecy and has the most direct and uncanny gaze of any maid you've ever seen, and that one wrong word to the king would mean being staked out for the ravens.

She would have to remember that those who weren't used to her, or who hadn't been around her for a while, saw the legend first: twice uncanny. Wielder of wyrd, dealer of death, the king's seer.

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

Her thoughts came together, smooth as a shield wall: The fact they could check the prophecy they must believe.

Hild looked deeper, letting her mind sink into the glimmer and shadow, as she might in the world, looking at the leaves, or lying on her back watching the clouds, letting the thoughts come, letting the things she already knew arrange themselves in a pattern, a story that other might call a prophecy.

Those who prophesy more than indefinite cycles of decline and ascent are hiding some suspicious product they want to sell for cash.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen

So many evils by Satan's prince will be committed that almost the entire world will find itself undone and desolated. Before these events, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!" and sometime later will vanish

Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers...

Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».