Prodigal Quotes

54 quotes by 46 authors

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… — Max Lucado
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark… — Unknown Author
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not… — Hartley Coleridge
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… — Franklin P. Adams
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. — James Boswell
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… — Vance Havner
There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the… — Vance Havner
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
There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over,… — Oscar Wilde
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will… — Theodore Roosevelt
If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests,… — Pythagoras
We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and… — William H. Whyte
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… — Ricky Gervais
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against… — Charles Caleb Colton
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. — Edwin Louis Cole
Every reformation must have its victims. You canâ€™t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigalâ€™s return. — Hector Hugh Munro
...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or… — Barbara Kingsolver
Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation… — Tommy Tenney
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… — Victor Hugo

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