Top 25 Prophet Quotes of 147 - Page 5

Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

Mother Teresa

Holy Prophet, Holy, Prophet

Mattersindia.com Interview, mattersindia.com. September 4, 2016.

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

Kevin DeYoung

Jesus, Prophet, Fulfillment

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Elisabeth Elliot

Mood, Prophet, Found

I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

Desmond Tutu

Inspiration, Old Testament, Prophet

"Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Eddings

Stories, Prophet, Storyteller

"Fantasy master David Eddings dies aged 77" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

Daniel Quinn

Needs, Prophet, Ought

Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.86, Bantam

You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Christopher Moore

Thinking, Want, Prophet

Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

Brigham Young

Thinking, Joseph Smith, Prophet

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

Wolfgang Pauli

Doubt, Atheism, Prophet

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Wallace Stegner

Judging, Prophet, Preacher

Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

Tony Bouza

Art, Way, Prophet

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Swami Vivekananda

Men, Perfect, Prophet

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3209, Manonmani Publishers

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Spencer W. Kimball

Mean, Men, Holy Prophet

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Memories, Good Memories, Prophet

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

Plato

Art, Holy Prophet, Order