Prodigals Quotes - Page 3

• Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

  Tommy Tenney

  Zero, Father, Heart

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• Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hope, Expectations, Bankers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.72

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

  Ben Jonson

  Money, Men

  "The Staple of News".

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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

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

  Alexander Wilson

  Men, Needs, Need Money

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• The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.

  J. L. Carr

  Autumn, Air, Feelings

  J.L. Carr (2012). “A Month in the Country”, p.121, New York Review of Books

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• Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Littles, Lasts, Would Be

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• Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Laziness, Desperate, Dare

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• Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

  John Dryden

  Life, Ease

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 165

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• But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• [The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, Children, Men

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• My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

  Henri Nouwen

  Book, Writing, Son

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

  Charles Gounod

  Perfect, Heaven, Grace

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• There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

  Jane Kenyon

  Feet, Dust, Way

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

  Theresa Villiers

  Possession, Valuable

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• The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's so clear and concise, and it's entertaining in the sense that everyone can relate to it. But you have no doubt what our Lord was trying to communicate in the heart of that story. So the truth was not sacrificed on the altar of entertainment in that case. And it can be.

  Max Lucado

  Drama, Heart, Character

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have known their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned.”

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Blessing, Thinking

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Goal, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Father, Believe

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• Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Angel, Enthusiasm, Return

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on the Academy"

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• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Breathing

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• There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Horse, Pain, War

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• When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.

  John Rae

  Country, War, Men

  John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123

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