#prophet

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other. ↗

— Mary Doria Russell

#prophet #courage

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#burns #evil #fire #lips #our

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most

Jesters do often prove prophets. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#prophets #prove

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

— Debbie Allen

#harlem #indian #michael #plays #prophet

We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#came #change #into #islam #keep

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#even #followers #his #islam #number

A lot of prophets have gone to jail. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#jail #lot #prophets