Prophecy quotes

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◆ God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

- Stephen King100

◆ Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous

- George Eliot99

◆ Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fullfill prophecy.

- Nas99

◆ Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Brian Tracy99

◆ A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

- Paul Watzlawick99

◆ You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

- Tim LaHaye99

◆ The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

- Hubert H Humphrey99

◆ If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

- Muhammad Iqbal99

◆ Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

- George Gissing99

◆ The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

- Joel A Barker99

◆ Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

- Benjamin Cardozo99

◆ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

- JRR Tolkien99

◆ The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.

- James Allen99

◆ I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

- Jean-Paul Sartre99

◆ Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

- James Allen99