Zitat des Tages über Prophezeiung / Prophecy:
You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.
The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a self-fulfilling prophecy or if it's something about the nature of those businesses.
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time.
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
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.
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.
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.
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.