In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live
Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
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.
Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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 if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced. . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam.
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.
The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.