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Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.
— Prophecy
Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.
You don't need no crystal ball,We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Thus, those who sought to penetrate the future cannot even see in front of themselves; they attempted to move themselves forward in time, so must they go backwards through all eternity; and as the arts of sorcery are a distortion of God's law, so are their bodies distorted in Hell.
Dreams, something like prophecy, are the offspring of imaginations and comparisons which we may form whilst awake.
Prophets don't know everything!
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
The Future … is like a puzzle — with missing pieces — difficult to read, and never, NEVER, what you think.
The Future is a puzzle, with many pieces to be sorted. In Time you will learn to separate what can be from what will be.
Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come "true". This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.
I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind.
When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passedthen my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
For you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit.
Every prophecy, afterwards uttered by various prophets, was handed over on Sinai at the time of the giving of the Decalogue, but was to be kept unproclaimed until each prophet had received the charge of proclaiming his respective prophecy
The historian is a prophet facing backwards.
O my prophetic soul!My uncle!
There is a history in all men's lives,And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation … confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word;The thanks of millions yet to be.
Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yetGood dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.
A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world … this great hour which rings in a new era … and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:Don't never prophesy—onless ye know.
It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doorsTo find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.
No mighty trance, or breathed spellInspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Till old experience do attainTo something like prophetic strain.
Is Saul also among the prophets?
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
