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It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading. — Augustine Of Hippo

If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive. — Chuck Palahniuk

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth

The back door beckons to a prodigal son. — Michael Davidow

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

The Prodigal Son didn't repent of his sin because he got tired of living like and with the pigs. He repented because God gave him eyes to see. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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

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

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth

It is incomprehensible grace to be a prodigal who is held by God again. — Angela Thomas

Can nothingness be so prodigal? — Sylvia Plath

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. — Horace

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton

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. — Saki

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. — Charles Caleb Colton

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift. — Horace

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. — William A. Drake

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

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. — G.K. Chesterton

You may be more prodigal of time than of money. — Suzanne Curchod

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast. — Max Lucado

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. — Edwin Louis Cole

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. — Ben Jonson

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. — Confucius

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. — John Dryden

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

I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. — William Shakespeare

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. — Benjamin Disraeli

Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king. — Mark Lawrence

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. — David Hume

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

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment. — Max Lucado

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell

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

Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little. — Hannah More

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

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You. — Augustine Of Hippo

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous. — James Boswell

We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away. — Jorge Luis Borges

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time! — Theresa Villiers

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker. — Charles Caleb Colton

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. — Alphonse De Lamartine

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. — Charles Spurgeon