The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they were de...
Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict w...
For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophet—to cry in the desert. The greatest of the prophets, Isaiah, made it notable, of course, when he sp...
Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The dead live again. Thou recallest them to their ...
–Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men? – – –I don’t know. Could be. –The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to get. The men who don’t get th...
Saying of the Prophet Women Women are the twin-halves of men.
Saying of the Prophet Sleep Sleep is the brother of death.
Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God)
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
