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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. -- Philip Schaff
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. -- Yoko Ono
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. -- Lord Byron
As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school. -- Preston Manning
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. -- Anne Stevenson
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does. -- Elie Wiesel
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character. -- Walter Martin
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. -- Petrarch
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. -- Jean Rostand
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion. -- David Brewster
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. -- Origen
Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook. -- Cornel West
Why?' is the prophetic question. -- Jim Wallis
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. -- John Milton
The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon. -- Jacob Peterson
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse. -- Allen Ginsberg
If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. -- Matthew Arnold
That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain. -- John Milton
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony. -- Jacques Ellul
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer. -- Gerard Way
Brigham Young had a prophetic vision. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! -- John Mason Brown
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. -- Walter Martin
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can. -- Greg Boyle
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. -- Reza Aslan
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Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. -- George Dyson
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world. -- Ari Graynor
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days. -- Ezra Taft Benson
People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. -- Brad Delson
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose. -- Paul Theroux
We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question. -- Jim Wallis
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us. -- Michael Eric Dyson
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted. -- Noah Feldman
The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted. -- John Eckhardt
Obeying a prophetic call to action brings positive benefits. -- Sherry K. White
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. -- Langdon Brown Gilkey
Always knew that I would make it, maybe it was so prophetic. -- August Alsina
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. -- John Milton
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Koran is a book of peace. It is a prophetic book of peace, -- Pope Francis
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness. -- Sun Ra
We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own! -- Steven Biko
Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word! -- Lou Engle
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny. -- Mamur Mustapha
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power. -- Plato
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! -- Umberto Eco
There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days. -- Jentezen Franklin
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. -- Georgia Harkness
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him! -- Cornel West
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. -- Thomas Carlyle
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice. -- Cornel West
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end. -- Edward Young
This is prophetic...The single most deterministic agent for predicting what comes next is predicated on what action you take now. So, make your move. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done. -- Eli Of Kittim
At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend. -- Hershel Shanks
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision -- Hugo Gernsback
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us. -- Walter Brueggemann
My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for. -- Jonathan Cain
Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice. -- John M Swomley
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question. -- Cornel West
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness. -- Brennan Manning
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I believe that dreaming an _impossible_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between _the world-as-it-is_ (reality) and _the world-as-it-ought-to-be_ (ideality) is where a prophetic call_ comes in. -- Namsoon Kang
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour. -- E. M. Forster
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. -- Walker Percy
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more. -- Matthew Arnold
I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice. -- Cornel West
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future. -- M. R. DeHaan
We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children. -- Cornel West
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. -- Leo Tolstoy

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