The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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.

Dream manfully and nobly and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his 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.

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world its ayatollah deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk Pop Art Jeff Koons Marcel Duchamp Francis Bacon and Catholicism.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.