Quotes about Prediction
Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Important in any community of faith is an ever-renewed expectation in what God is doing with our brothers and sisters in the faith. We refuse to label the others as one thing or another. We refuse to predict our brother's behavior, our sister's growth.
— Eugene Peterson
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
— Albert Einstein
Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.
— Billy Graham
The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper.
— Billy Graham
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
— Aldous Huxley
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
When then things to come are said to be seen, it is not themselves which as yet are not (that is, which are to be), but their causes perchance or signs are seen, which already are.
— St. Augustine
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
— NT Wright
Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of the things which take place now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?
— Marcus Aurelius
The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.
— Charles Taze Russell
The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.
— Seth Godin