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We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Oscar Romero
We are laborers, not architects, stewards, not saviors. We are heralds of a destiny beyond ourselves.
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A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
Oswald Mosley
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
Lord Byron
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A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
Leonard Ravenhill
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There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet
Saddam Hussein
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The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.
Irenaeus of Lyons
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When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
Ostad Elahi
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Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
Heinrich Heine
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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
Albert Camus
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
Karl Marx
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Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
Wolfgang Pauli
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In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.
Steven Weinberg
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You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
Hamza Yusuf
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There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.
Peter Brook
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The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
Muhammad Iqbal
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The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens
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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
Debbie Allen
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
Brigham Young
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There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.
Theodor Adorno
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Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.
Tom Lehrer
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According to the world standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect or socially unacceptable, but following the prophet is always right.
Carol F. McConkie
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
Timothy Keller
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The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Khalil Gibran
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Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
Jeremiah
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The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.
David Wilkerson
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Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.
Kool Moe Dee
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Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper
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Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.
Clinton Lee Scott
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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
Maurice Strong
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Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
Calvin Miller
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I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.
Sun Ra
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And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.
Woody Allen
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Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
Salman Rushdie
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In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.
Robert Lowell
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How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
Carl Sagan