#prophets

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

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#continuing #created #declared #god #had

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

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

#halt #human #human reason #limit #must

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

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

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose

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

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

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