“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”

— Barbara Kingsolver , The Poisonwood Bible

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 64

“The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church. We will enjoy rapturous celebration as the bride of Christ in the eternal kingdom.”

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 71

“Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

Part I, ch 9.
Proverbs (1546)

“When the bride is one
with her lover,
who cares about
the wedding party?”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Azfar Hussain translations

“…a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.”

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906–1979) Japanese physicist

about Ralph Kronig's criticism on Samuel Goudsmit's proposal of a self-rotating electron, inflicting the same reaction to Goudsmit as Kronig had been incurred from Wolfgang Pauli [Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 0-226-80794-0, 217]

“When the disciples asked Jesus who was greatest in the kingdom of heaven, he set a little child in the midst of them. … By the "poor in spirit," therefore, I understand our Lord to mean those who retain the spirit of little children, for little children are they of whom he said, "of such is the kingdom," in which they who are most childlike are greatest.Childlike men are the antipodes of the crawling creatures we call "poor spirited;" the men of expediencies and policies, who are sharp-eyed along the low horizons of earth.”

William Burnet Wright (1836–1924) American clergyman

Source: Master and Men (1894), p. 41

“India is a beautiful bride and Hindus and Muslims are her two eyes. ... If one of them is lost, this beautiful bride will become ugly.”

Syed Ahmed Khan (1820–1898) Indian educator and politician

Quoted in Shirali, Aresh (10 August 2017). "The Enigma of Aligarh" https://openthemagazine.com/freedom-issue-2017/freedom-issue-2017-dispatches-from-history/the-enigma-of-aligarh/. Open Magazine.
Variant: "India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye." Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan https://books.google.com/books?id=ausHAAAAMAAJ, p. 160.

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I'll woo her as the lion wooes his brides.”

John Home Douglas

Act i, scene 1.
Douglas (first performed 1756)

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter X · Terrain

“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”

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