Forerunner Quotes

“Your assignment will always be a forerunner to others’ assignments. Also, others’ assignments will always be forerunners to yours.”

“There is no record in Scripture that an angel visited John’s cell to explain the meaning of his persecution. This great, godly man who was the designated forerunner to Jesus went through the same confusing experiences as we. It is comforting to know that John responded in a very human way. He sent a secret message to Jesus from his prison cell, asking “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” (Matthew 11:3). Have you ever felt like asking that question?”

“Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.”

“You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.”

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

“I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.”

“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.”

“Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.”

“Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.”

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”