Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
Only the prophets see the obvious.
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.
In doubt, fear is the worst of 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. . . Most if not all of you have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do, for my Christian faith sprang from yours. . . . the Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modern Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. . . . Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. . . . Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.