31 Quotes About Prodigal-son

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.

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.

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.

The back door beckons to a prodigal son.