Walter Lippmann Quotes

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.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

I am not a prophet.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

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

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

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

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

I wonder that a prophet doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another prophet.

The Church, by the internal law of her being, cannot renounce her calling to enlighten, to transform the whole human life, to imbue it with her rays

Being prophets may sometimes imply making waves. I do not know how to put it.... Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say ‘a mess.’ But in reality, the charisma of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.

… utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Grasp Revolution

A shocking event plus utopian imagination plus movement muscle, that's how we get a real leap.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.