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Prodigals Quotes

...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came. Barbara Kingsolver
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would..."
If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive. Chuck Palahniuk
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation. C. S. Lewis
And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough. If she unmasks her beauty to the moon. William Shakespeare
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man. George Steiner
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf..."
If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive. Chuck Palahniuk
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. George MacDonald
Sylvia Plath quote: "Can nothingness be so prodigal?"
Can nothingness be so prodigal? Sylvia Plath
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle. Soren Kierkegaard
Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,--once again review thy past life of starvation and wretchedness, revisit the scenes where fate and misfortune conducted, and where despair received thee. Too many diamonds, too much gold and splendor, are now reflected by the mirror in which Monte Cristo seeks to behold Dantes. Hide thy diamonds, bury thy gold, shroud thy splendor, exchange riches for... Alexander Dumas
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom. Henry Hazlitt
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. Victor Hugo
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. Hannah More
Benjamin Franklin quote: "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must..."
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Benjamin Franklin
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

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