Top 1200 False Prophets Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the framework for total truth, rooted in the Creator's existence and in the Bible's teaching, so that in each step of the formal learning process the student will understand what is true and what is false and why it is true or false.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

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.

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.

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

The stand-up really helped because you know the feeling when something feels true, and you know the feeling when it feels false. You don't ever want to give an actor the feeling of it being false, because you know how unfair that is.

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.

Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The 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.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.