31 Quotes About Prodigal-son
- Author Ruth Bell Graham
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Dad, I’m not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith’ stated the clergyman’s son when he returned from the university for holidays with a fledgling scholar’sassured arrogance. The father’s black eyes skewered his son, who was 'lost,' as C.S. Lewis put it‘in the invincible ignorance of his intellect.’ ‘Son,’ the father said, ‘That is your freedom, yourterrible freedom.
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- Author Aurelius Augustine
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It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.
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- Author James K.A. Smith
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You can still be living in your childhood bedroom and have departed for a distant country. You can play the role of the “good son” with a heart that roams in a twilight beyond good and evil. You can even show up to church every week with a voracious appetite for idols. Not all prodigals need a passport.
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- Author Michael Davidow
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The back door beckons to a prodigal son.
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