Definition of Prophet

Prophet

One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

An interpreter; a spokesman.

A mantis.

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Prophet Quotations

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

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.
Aldous Huxley

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Sophocles

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

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
Abu Bakr

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

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.
Cat Stevens

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.
Cat Stevens

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
Cat Stevens

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
Orson Pratt

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
Sun Ra

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
Sun Ra

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I am not a prophet.
Jose Saramago

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

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
Muhammed Iqbal

The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The best prophet of the future is the past.
George Byron

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

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
Todd Gitlin

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Herbert Croly

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin

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Prophet Translations

prophet in Dutch is voorspeller, profeet, voorzegger
prophet in German is Prophet, Weissager
prophet in Spanish is profeta
prophet in Swedish is profeten, profet

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