Quotes About Prodigals

#1. Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Joseph Addison

#2. What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#3. Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Alexander Wilson

#4. Well, well. Kill the fatted calf and all that. The prodigals have returned.

Cassandra Clare

#5. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

Philip Yancey

#6. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

Susan May Warren

#7. It is to the prodigals ... that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.

Simone Weil

#8. Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

Mary E. DeMuth

#9. Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed. Ruth Bell Graham

James Banks

#10. Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

Branch Rickey

#11. You may be more prodigal of time than of money.

Suzanne Curchod

#12. I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

G. Willow Wilson

#13. To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. You will never go home, cancerous little polyp!

A.G. Howard

#15. As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

Neville Marriner

#16. And she realized that she still wanted Jared when all thoughts of passion were dead, when other consolation seemed like a cruel joke - that she wanted to be with him when the thought of being with anyone else was unbearable, when the thought of someone else touching her made her want to scream.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

James Boswell

#18. O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

Theresa Villiers

#19. In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. This was law? she thought. Where was the excitement of court cases, the challenge of defending the people that her father was always talking about? This was no fun at all.

Francine Pascal

#21. Even now, I feel your arms around me
My breath is your breath and yours mine
Even now, I hear you laughing like bells ...
You sing to me and I sing to you
Dear child of my womb, my love,
Time has left us, left us forever together.

Victor Robert Lee

#22. Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Herbert Simon

#23. The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Jonson

#24. If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

Raphael Saadiq

#25. It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Peter Krause

#26. Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Peter Hermann

#27. It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

Kevin Wilson

#28. Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

John Dryden

#29. No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

Charles Stross

#30. Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception ... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium ... Photograph and be photographed.

Alexander Rodchenko

#31. A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

Benjamin Disraeli