On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of — Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of — Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of — Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of — Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of — Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose," (pp. 49).

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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