Quotes about Prophecy
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
— Lao Tzu
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott
— Charles Dickens
a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after
— Charles Dickens
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
— Charles Spurgeon
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
— Walt Whitman
there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.
— William Faulkner
I beg you to stop your arguing and listen. The prophets speak of this time, when the Chosen One of God will cleave us apart, separating the believers from those who will be cast into the outer darkness. Have you ever in all your days seen a time when the division has been clearer? Have you ever known a time when miracles rained down from an empty sky, when the prophets' words were so clearly being fulfilled?
— Janette Oke
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
— Oscar Wilde
Jesus is the messianic craftsman whom Zechariah spoke about.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
What is envisaged is a point or stretch lying at the end of history; it forms part of what are called "days"; that thereafter there shall be no more days, but something of a different nature is not implied.
— Geerhardus Vos
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
— George Eliot
This book has two goals: to encourage Christians to live righteous and holy lives in light of the prophetic timetable that is to come and to challenge unbelievers about the judgment ahead if they reject Christ.
— Tony Evans