Bible The Prodigal Son Quotes & Sayings

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

Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away. — Jonathan Swift

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands. — Chris Oyakhilome

When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. She has more than I do. — Beth Moore

I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all the time. I'd practice before I got to the set, but they'd just show up and put on the roller-skates, and they'd be skating over these wires and cables, so they would all fall over. It was totally dangerous. — Heather Graham

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart. — William Cowper

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived. — Brennan Manning

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. — Warren Buffett

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde