Quotes About Prodigal Child

#1. When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

Max Lucado

#2. Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out.

Fred Trump

#3. It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

Dave Blood

#4. I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

Ricardo Mayorga

#5. His thoughts-if you can use that word about a dog, particularly one as stupid as Bonaparte-were simply fixed, with absolute determination, upon the distant horizon, and he was not going to stop until he had reached it.

Jonathan Coe

#6. The Bible is not a Christian owner's manual but a story - a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.

Peter Enns

#7. Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.

Gerard De Marigny

#8. And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Catherine Cookson

#9. Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

James Sallis

#10. For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Herman Melville

#11. The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Karl Popper

#12. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9

J.P. Moreland

#13. I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry.

Caroline B. Cooney

#14. Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

James Anthony Froude