The Return Of The Prodigal Son Quotes

#1. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

Rick Yancey

#2. He thought about his son's stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future if
you didn't like it - and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.

Mitch Albom

#3. What is my Phone Number

Redzuan

#4. I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

Mark Zuckerberg

#5. Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Ajahn Sumedho

#6. To be perfectly honest, it scared me a little. You get so used to seeing the same thing in the mirror every day you stop thinking about what you look like.

Cat Clarke

#7. Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Malcolm Boyd

#8. I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

Anne Bancroft

#9. You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. The only ones who should kill, are those who are prepared to be killed.

Lelouch Vi Britannia

#11. There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Joan Didion

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. What are we going to do about this mess?" asked Riley, staring at the large pile of dirt and melted table. "I didn't see anything," said Jess. "The truth is out there," added Lindy. "Trust no one," I muttered.

Rose Montague

#15. I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.

Hjalmar Branting

#16. My momma used to say that a girl had to find her prince after wading through the frogs.

Shelly Crane

#17. This man welcomes sinners and eats with them," Jesus confronted the Pharisees and scribes not only with the return of the prodigal son, but also with the resentful elder son. It must have come as a shock to these dutiful religious people.

Henri J.M. Nouwen