Prophet Quotations

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything He tells you. Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be cut off from God's people and utterly destroyed.

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

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.

'The Last Patriot' is set in the present day but is based upon the premise that the Prophet Mohammed had a final revelation, he shared it with his disciples, and they killed him to keep it hidden and out of the Qur'an. If this missing revelation can be found, its impact on the world will be incredible.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.

Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord has established His Church once again among men.

Until now we have limited our action to demonstrations, but if they did not stop their offences to Prophet Mohammad we will defend the Prophet with our souls and blood.

Tom was like an Old Testament prophet crying out in the wilderness, and finally people are starting to listen.

We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.

We're going to help them understand what the prophet means to us, why he is the most influential man (in our religion). As well as why there are 1.3 billion that follow him.

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

We have no other choice. Those who say nothing create the impression that they secretly want to see the prophet be insulted.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

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.

I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

Man is nothing else than en eternal maker of divinity, where every sentiment he has becomes a possible saint or angel, prophet or demon, depending on the changes that sentiment undergoes.

So far we have demanded an apology from the governments. But if they continue their assault on our dear Prophet Mohammad, we will burn the ground underneath their feet.

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of Gilead, and the 7th century prophet Muhammad were one and the same.

There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Looking at the matter from this point of view, then, the Prophet of Islam seems to stand between the ancient and the modern world.

It is difficult to be called a Muslim; if one is truly a Muslim, then he may be called one. First, let him savor the religion of the Prophet as sweet; then, let his pride of his possessions be scraped away.

We feel great rage at the continued attacks on Islam and the Prophet of Islam and we demand that the Danish government make a clear and public apology for the wrongful crime.

The outrage here is over defaming the Prophet which is a specific crime in Islamic law.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

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

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

There is no God and we are his prophets.

We understand their pain, but Muslims should channel their anger not by burning and pillaging, but by following the example of Prophet Muhammad himself, who urged restraint and calmness in the wake of provocation.

Those who slandered the Prophet in Scandinavia were wrong and committed a mistake because they did not consider Mohammed as their prophet as well due to the wrong teachings that incite hatred.

Truth... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

We want to discuss the implications and impact of the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and try to come up with initiatives to help calm the situation.

What! shall We then turn away the reminder from you altogether because you are an extravagant people? / And how many a prophet have We sent among the ancients.

This only plays right into the stereotypes when people see these images. We see (the protests) as counterproductive and un-Islamic. This is not how the prophet Mohammed would have responded to such attacks.

We should have killed all those who offend the Prophet and instead here we are, protesting peacefully.

We have expressed the Muslim community's concerns about a variety of images of the Prophet Mohammed, whether it be in textbooks, editorial cartoons or even in the Supreme Court.

And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him? / But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

The violence, destruction and hate which marred some of the protests against the publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad over the weekend are totally unacceptable. I am confident that they are not supported by the vast majority of people of Islamic faith, regardless of how offended they feel by these caricatures.

Sometimes it seems to me that certain European leaders want to be more Muslim that the Prophet Mohammad,

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.

Apologies from European governments will do, but if they persist in their attack on the prophet we will burn the ground beneath their feet.

The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

You need to stand up for oppressed persons, people who cannot stand up for themselves and for yourself. But never fight just for the sake of it. Our 10th prophet bestowed that responsibility to us?. It is a privilege also, not just a responsibility.

This movement for the protection of the sanctity of the Prophet Mohammad will lead to a revolution.

This morning I read German and visited wit a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that "a prophet is always a prophet;" but I told them that a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such.---

This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good.

For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

It's our positive reaction to a negative issue. The cartoons deface the character of the prophet and in turn our character. But we feel the violent response is not warranted. It's not the way the prophet would have responded.

The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist.

The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.

The Biblical prophet doesn't predict the future, but bears witness to the presense of God in history.

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

They've won. That is what is so appalling. My guess is that no one in the next generation is going to want to draw the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark and therefore I must ashamedly admit it: they've won. Had we known that it would lead to boycotts and Danish lives being endangered as we have seen, then the answer is 'no'.

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

In general, Muslims don't want the prophet depicted in any fashion, even if it's positive.

In her own simple way, Rosa Parks changed the history of our nation. She forced us to recognize the dignity of every person. She was a prophet -- a common instrument of God inviting us and challenging us to a new vision of solidarity, equality and justice. We were blessed to have her as citizen of Detroit.

I know that Lorenzo Snow was God's mouthpiece upon the earth, that he was the representative of the Lord, and that he was, in very deed, a prophet of God.

If you are a pastor, and you don't think your congregation wants to hear this kind of message, think about forming a new congregation. It won't be difficult. Just start preaching like a prophet of God, and the losers will leave, or toss you out. Your income as a pastor is going to wipe you out anyway; better seek alternative income now, while you have the opportunity.

In the name of the Prophet - figs.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.