#prophet

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had. ↗

— Walter Martin

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We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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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

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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips. ↗

— Origen

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