I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual.
Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
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.
For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
I have always known a thing before it happens.
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.
One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
