We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. — Alexander Wilson Copy Share Image
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
![“[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my…” quote by Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/282/henri-nouwen-600_book_the-return-of-the-prodigal-book-came-out_592758.jpg)
