#prophet

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

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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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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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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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People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country. ↗

— Sun Ra

#his #own #people #prophet #recognize

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

#any #appear #current #day #error

I am not a prophet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God. ↗

— George A. Smith

#god #israel #lies #life #more