Prophecy is the second studio album by Susan McKeown & The Chanting House, following their debut, Bones, in 1996. Produced by McKeown and guitarist Jon Sparney, the album was released through indie label Sheila-na-Gig Music on March 4, 2002.

Notable quotes

“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”
— Benjamin N. Cardozo, West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935).
“A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.”
— Jesus, Matthew, XIII. 57.
“Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.”
— Charles de Lint, in "Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396.
“Every prophecy, afterwards uttered by various prophets, was handed over on Sinai at the time of the giving of the Decalogue, but was to be kept unproclaimed until each prophet had received the charge of proclaiming his respective prophecy”
— 28, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 103.
“We know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
— I Corinthians 13:9.
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?”
— Zechariah 1:5.

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Overview

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