Not the Prodigal Son, nor Faustus.
Not the Prodigal Son, nor Faustus.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his Banker, but his drafts are seldom honored since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital and is not yet in possession.
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet prodigal inward joy.
Why do the prodigal elements supply
Life and food to me, being more pure than I,
Simple, and further from corruption?
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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.
The covetous man never has money the prodigal will have none shortly.
Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.
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.
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.
Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.
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