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prophet
«I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| Keywords:
emblem, Emblems, jail, prophet, retribution, retributions, sleeps, tamer, tamers, The Beast, The Prophet, Threats
«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.»
«There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
convince, credentials, evangelical, prophet, virtually
«Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Book of, concerning, first and last, genealogies, Iddo, jeroboam, prophet, Rehoboam, seer, Shemaiah, The Prophet
«Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.»
«There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fancies, ghost, Holy Ghost, prophet, rude, rustic, The Whisper, whisper
«Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
faculty, imaginative, logical, magician, priest, prophet, The Magician, ward, warding, wizard
«Someone has said that the first soothsayer, the first prophet, was the first rascal who encountered a fool»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
encountered, prophet, rascal, soothsayer, soothsayers, The Rascals