Prodigal Quotes
54 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
— Plutarch
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If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
— James Boswell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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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
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...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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Prodigal Quotes
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