#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

#color #families #hungry #interrogators #many

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#death #love #martyrs #men #prophets

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#either #jesus #jesus christ #john #john kerry

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

#art #beautiful #beautiful music #calm #delightful

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

— Walter Martin

#false #gift #had #in my opinion #made

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

#being #concealed #knew #made #manifest

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

#believe #bore #did #good #lips

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

— Sun Ra

#his #own #people #prophet #recognize

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#common #common faith #democratic #faith #freedom

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ↗

— Paul Simon

#prophets #silence #sounds #subway #tenements