Pastoral Resources

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.