(67 quotes found)
“If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks."”
Albert Einstein
“The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places -- to comfort the broken-hearted. . .”
Olympia Brown
“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 Barker
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Brian Tracy
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing”
Bible
“Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.”
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous”
George Eliot
“The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to”
David Hume
“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
