#prophets

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#many #messiah #promise #prophets #science

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

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#because #i #lonely #prophetic #prophets

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

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. ↗

— Martin Luther

#gift #god #music #prophets

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

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