As we see from the Scriptures, it had become a common and proverbial expression that if someone wanted to refer to a prophet, he called him a “fool.” So in the history of Jehu (2 Kings 9:11), they said of a prophet: “Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And Isaiah shows (Is. 57:4) that they opened their mouths and put out their tongues against him. But all they accomplished by this was to become a terrible stench and a curse, while the dear prophets and saints have honor, praise, and acclaim throughout the world and are ruling forever with Christ, the Lord.
Martin LutherThe variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the responsiveness of the hearers. The variable is not in the presence or absence or the relative quality and force of the prophetic voices. The prophet grows in stature as people respond to his message...It is the seekers, then, who make the prophet.
Robert K. GreenleafGod thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.
Ronald J. SiderTag: christianity god anger worship outrage wrath poor taking-advantage prophets
Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.
Robert Louis StevensonAnd never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!
John BarthTag: prophets grand-tutors
In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did a diabolical thing because he loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood.
Umberto EcoTag: fanaticism christianity religion prophets
Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad.
Mawde RoydenTag: science life politics kindness love equality freedom society people justice god religion faith fiction fact atheist struggle law christian earth freedom-of-choice unity glory eyes jewish thoughts hindu muhammad tenderness muhammad-pbuh system prophets mandate
He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.
Ian McDonaldTag: god prophets choosing-friends-wisely
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
China MiévilleTag: prophets
No wonder God chose this dark land to send prophets to, for a candle only shines in the dark.
Rami OllaikTag: god dark land candle prophets
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