#prophet

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. ↗

— George Savile

#good #good memory #memory #prophet #qualification

The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#historian #looking #prophet

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

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet! ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#any #dangerous #doubt #hands #i

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#could #division #essential #i #men

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

#american #been #blake #books #favorite

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#confirmed #day #december #elder #hands

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned. ↗

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

#god #hearts #islam #love #prophet-muhammad

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays! ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#humor #prophetic #humor