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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
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
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
— William Wordsworth
Can nothingness be so prodigal?
— Sylvia Plath
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
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
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
You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
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
