#prophecy

When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all ↗

— Rick Riordan

#the-hero-in-the-great-prophecy #family

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest. ↗

— David Gemmell

#fait #gods #life #people #prophecy

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus-christ #prophecy #the-messiah #men

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#else #everything #just #like #literally

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#heir #make #men #object #poetry

The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs were lost, and consumer consumption fell in a corporate death spiral as the aging technoczars were revealed to have feet of clay. Financial institutions underreacted, the government overreacted, and a society living on borrowed time paid for with borrowed dollars failed. Hard times and hunger came to the Western world, which was all the more of a shock because the generation that survived the last financial collapse had virtually died out. ↗

— E.E. Knight

#post-apocalypse #prophecy-in-fiction #age

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#men #only #prophecy #wise #wise men

These months drive us to listen within. ↗

— Charol Messenger

#futurist #mayan-calendar #new-cosmic-age #new-humanity #nostradamus

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#become #description #fate #i #many

I will go, once I have said what I came here to say. I will never shrink from the anger in your eyes- you can't destroy me. Listen to me closely: the man you have sought for so long, proclaiming, cursing up and down, the murderer of Laius- he is here. A stranger, you may think, who lives among you, he soon will be revealed a native Theban but he will take no joy in the revelation. Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, A stick tapping before him step by step. Revealed at last, brother and father both to the children he embraces, to his mother son and husband both - he sowed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his father's blood! Go in and reflect on that, solve that. And if you find I've lied from this day onward call the prophet blind. ↗

— Robert Fagles Sophocles

#eloquent #incest #pain #prophecy #prophet