“Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease”
John Dryden
“I weep when I am not able to change something I will to change. My heart aches to see others in pain, and my soul is brought to wrath against the cause of the problem. I am not God, and therefore there is a limit to what I can do to ease the pain of a fellow human being, so I pray to Him that His hand cover those that hurt, and remove the burdens that hide smiles in their hearts and banish them from their faces.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soulLends the tongue vows.”
William Shakespeare
“Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.”
John W. Hinckley Jr.
“A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.”
Daniel Bell
“If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.”
Dan Barker
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
Benjamin Franklin
