Zitat des Tages über Propheten / Prophets:
Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.
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.
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.
Jesters do often prove 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.
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.
That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
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.
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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.
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
