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Prodigal -- Dante Alighieri
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! -- William Wordsworth
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech -- Dan Barker
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. -- Dan Barker
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book. -- Henri Nouwen
Chapter7The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx. -- Dante Alighieri
[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression. -- Henri Nouwen
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. -- John Ciardi
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. -- Hannah More
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. -- Vance Havner
Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody. -- Anne Graham Lotz
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. -- Hjalmar Branting
Can nothingness be so prodigal? -- Sylvia Plath
The back door beckons to a prodigal son. -- Michael Davidow
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. -- Edwin Louis Cole
If a man is miser, he will certainly have a prodigal son. -- Vikrant Parsai
If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive. -- Chuck Palahniuk
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house. -- Os Guinness
You have DIED to doing things your own way. You can only LIVE again as you take up your cross, daily, and follow Jesus. - THE PRODIGAL LIFE -- Pauline Creeden
And keep you in the rear of your affection,Out of the shot and danger of desire,The chariest maid is prodigal enoughIf she unmasks her beauty to the moon. -- William Shakespeare
You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely. -- Italo Calvino
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. -- George MacDonald
It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger boy, class clown, commander of artillery, altar boy, lace maker, exiled king, peacemaker, or moon goddess. -- Pat Conroy
Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder. -- Marilynne Robinson
Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service. -- Mary E. DeMuth
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man. -- George Steiner
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle. -- Soren Kierkegaard
What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time? -- Robin McKinley
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. -- Victor Hugo
I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry. -- Caroline B. Cooney
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God"There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know. -- Brennan Manning
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity's rebellion from God. -- R. C. Sproul
The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son:'But he came home.''Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. Das Kapital had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy? -- Graham Greene
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. -- John Dryden
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. -- James Boswell
You may be more prodigal of time than of money. -- Suzanne Curchod
The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. -- Confucius
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. -- Ben Jonson
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. -- Charles Gounod
I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. -- William Shakespeare
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time! -- Theresa Villiers
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. -- Plutarch
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. -- Joseph Hall
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. -- David Hume
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. -- William A. Drake
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. -- Charles Spurgeon
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. -- Henri Nouwen
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. -- Immanuel Kant
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. -- William Wordsworth
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast. -- Max Lucado
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. -- Charles Caleb Colton
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. -- Max Lucado
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. -- Horace
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother. -- John Ortberg
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. -- Horace
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.... -- Hannah More
Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. -- Rosemary Mahoney
The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late. -- J. L. Carr
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old. -- George Sand
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise. -- Franklin P. Adams
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?". -- Ricky Gervais
But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face. -- Max Lucado
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. -- Jane Kenyon
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? -- Alexander Pope
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. -- Paul Klee
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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