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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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 spirit.

Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.

Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mischief is thy great delight, Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.

A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore, With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir, Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.

It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.