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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 —

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

“I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.”

— Philip Yancey

“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

“Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.”

— Mary E. DeMuth

“Well, well. Kill the fatted calf and all that. The prodigals have returned.”

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Alexander Wilson

“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

“Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.”

— Joseph Addison

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