“ Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns. Shannon L. Alder
“ If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons. Bamigboye Olurotimi
“ It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. G.K. Chesterton
“ Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't… Shannon L. Alder
“ Since my visit to the Hermitage, I had become more aware of the four figures, two women and two men, who stood around the luminous space where the father welcomed his returning son. Their way of looki… Henri J.M. Nouwen
“ Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and dance all these years, not just these few years but all the years, skipping all those holidays an… Anne Tyler
“ The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religi… Frederick Buechner
“ One example is the familiar parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), which in some ways might be better called the parable of the elder brother. For the point of the parable as a whole - a point f… Jaroslav Pelikan
“ And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms. Catherine Cookson
“ Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open field wherein he himself can love. If the prodigal son had not believed that the father's love was a… Hans Urs von Balthasar
