“The difference between an author and a writer is similar to that of the prophet and the messenger. Simply, because every messenger is not a prophet, but every prophet has a message and prophecies to convey to the people.”
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“The difference between Christ and the other prophets is threefold”
Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), pp. 165-166
Context: The difference between Christ and the other prophets is threefold:
1. Unlike the other prophets, he has no connection with politics and is not a people's tribune. In the Gospels, we find temporal circumstances only as background, Christ having no relationship to them at all. He kept his thoughts unmuddled by the world — "Get thee behind me, Satan!" — he was and remained truly free of the world.
2. He preaches no religious superficialities whatsoever, nothing at all of worship, nothing of God; he is truly godless.
3. Neither for earth nor heaven does he preach any coming kingdom. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" ( Mt. 6:33 http://bible.cc/matthew/6-33.htm). The kingdom, however, is nothing that is to come; it is here, it is within you ( Lk. 17:21 http://bible.cc/luke/17-21.htm). It is the Spirit of innerness as it is alive in him, the truly blessed man; it is the essence, ever being and never changing. It is also the essence of this our life, not merely an appendix granted it by some other essence, for which we would have to fulfill certain conditions.

Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Times
Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)

The Prophet said, "Your father."
Sahih al-Bukhari, 8:2
Sunni Hadith

“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”
H 23
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)

“Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.”
Watch Tower, (October 1890), p. 8.

The Prophet, then, invoked Allah to grant her a long life thrice.
Al-Bukhari [citation needed]
Sunni Hadith