#prophecies

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. ↗

— Christopher Hopper

#christian-science-fiction #elves #grimwarden #jimmy #jimmy-gresham

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#doctrine #narrow-mindedness #orthodoxy #prophecies #religion

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#fellow men #fulfilling #habit #his #incurable

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy. ↗

— Peter Koevari

#death

Oracular ambiguity or statical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#foretellers #prophecies #faith