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Epstein, an internationally exhibited photographer with half a dozen previous books to his credit, is a prodigal son.
The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight?
Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son?
In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
Therefore the soul falls below its own level and disintegrates, like the prodigal son reduced to feeding on pigswill.
And it looks as if we will have a long wait before the prodigal son returns again to play in Scotland.
In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was.
In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland.
For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return.
The parable Jesus told about the prodigal son shows us what love means.
It was like an experience of the prodigal son or the finding of the lost sheep.
This is the bitter compassion of the Father who is unable even to embrace at the last moment the much desired prodigal son.
To see what has happened to the Alliance, makes the story of the prodigal son look somewhat tame.
In the parable of the prodigal son it is through the love of the father that the younger son regains his former status.
Our team once attended a talk given by Cardinal Martini on the prodigal son.
Man, being the prodigal son, has made bad use of and dissipated the goods which he received from his heavenly Father.
There are many instances in the community of young people who have come back, like the prodigal son, to loving fathers.
The race is at a point where the prodigal son is conscious of the husks and of the futility of earthly life.
I told him it was the story of the prodigal son and asked if he wanted me to read it to him.
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She read of the prodigal son, and of Him who would not condemn the woman that was a sinner.
I was received there with all the welcome it was possible for a prodigal son to be.
But for her Paula would not have returned, like the prodigal son, to the father's house.
It is the love of a mother to her prodigal son that makes her pray for him.
He figured me out as the prodigal son, and wa'n't goin' to knuckle.
She read from the New Testament, and he took keen interest in the prodigal son and the thief on the cross.
Baseball's prodigal son Giancarlo Stanton put pen to paper on a contract that will place him in the record books.
I have not seen my mother this long time, and it lies upon my conscience, for it's something to be loved as she loves her prodigal son.
Leaving the ground with the air of a father mourning over some prodigal son, he encountered Mr Jacob Dodson, of Manchester.
Your beautiful picture of the prodigal son is Mr. Barton's work.
Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?
When I walked into the L'Arche home six years ago, I saw the reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son on the wall.
If you had just run away and come back again with a headache, I'd have treated you like the Prodigal Son.
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