Bridegroom Quotes

• Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Christian, Blessed, Here I Am

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• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Wedding, Gratitude

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• Mary adored Jesus as the Bridegroom of souls. Union is the final purpose of love. Jesus by the gift of His substance in the Eucharist unites Himself with our souls as with His dear spouses. As a Bridegroom, He gives them all His possessions, His name, His heart, His whole Self, but on the condition that the soul reciprocates. The soul, His spouse, shall live for Him only

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Sappho

  Men, Beam, Roof

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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• The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.

  Mike Bickle

  Wise, Jesus, Dark

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• Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, Brother, Jesus

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1992). “Jesus and Mary: Finding Our Sacred Center”

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• But I will be,
  A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
  As to a lover's bed.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Running, Bed

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 99

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• God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

  A. B. Simpson

  Kings, Dark, Jewels

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• Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Attention, World, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• ... whenever Christ, the Bridegroom of pure souls, is mystically united with each soul, He gives the Father occasion to rejoice over this as at a wedding. It is Christ Himself Who says, 'Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repents' (Lk. 15:7). For joy, according to the Apostle, is the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22), Who through conversion brings back to Christ those living in repentance, and reunites them with Him. And this joy embraces both those in heaven and godly men on earth. That is why there is joy in heaven over one repentant sinner.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Godly

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• Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Life, Real

  "When Death Comes" l. 24 (1992)

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• Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

  Laurence Sterne

  Reading, Sunshine, Winter

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• He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Hero, Rooms, Prison

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

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• If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures. What would a loving bride not do for a loving bridegroom? ...God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love. The Christians who suffered for their faith in prisons could love. I am a witness that they could love God and men.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.

  Jakob Bohme

  Blessed, Heart, Sadness

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• Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

  Will Rogers

  Marriage, America, Taste

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”

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• The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Two, Unity

  "Publications of the Catholic Truth Society", London, Volume 30, (p. 41), 1896.

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• We're even going to have sex in Heaven! How about that? Isn't that wonderful? Love all the girls you want to and all the handsome boys you want to and love all you want to and never get tired, never be impotent, never have a headache, never get hungry, never get sleepy, no pains, no VD, no nothin' except joy and praise and Hallelujah and lots of fun with your Bridegroom and all your friends and loved ones and the Family of God, His Family of Love, His children of God in Heaven when Jesus comes!

  David Berg

  Girl, Jesus, Sex

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• But the fact that Christ as the bridegroom brings forth fruit through me as the bride, through the agency of the indwelling Holy Spirit by faith, opens the way for me as a Christian to begin to know in the present life the reality of the supernatural. This is where the Christian is to live. Doctrine is important, but it is not an end in itself. There is to be an experiential reality, moment by moment.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Reality

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

  Ezra Pound

  Children, Men, Bed

  Cantos no. 45, l. 42 (1937)

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• Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

  Christopher West

  Thinking, Feet, Catholic

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• Christians are meant to have the same vocation as their King, that of cross-bearers. It is this conscience of a high calling and of partnership with Jesus which brings gladness in tribulations, which makes Christians enter prisons for their faith with the joy of a bridegroom entering the bridal room.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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