#prophet

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#prophetic #wisdom #writing #age

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#scribe #word-of-god #experience

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#prophet #red #family

Forget yourself and go to work. ↗

— Bryant S. Hinckley

#lds #prophet #inspirational

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook. ↗

— Cornel West

#life

He who is not generous(loving,benevolent),God is not generous(loving,benevolent) to him. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #benevolent #culture #freedom #generous

Prophets borrow the omniscience of God to speak with the insolence of angels. But we are only impressed with their authority when they talk to us humbly, as men of inferior rank. ↗

— Bauvard

#authority #god #prophets #men

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#almost #be true #been #born #cannot