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Home›Traditions›Anabaptist

Anabaptist Illustrations

Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.

Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”

23,986 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens

Poetry

Proud Music of The Storm.

Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! Wind of the mountains! Personified dim shapes! you hidden orchestras! You serenades of phantoms, with instruments alert, Blending, with Nature’s rhythmus, all the tongues of nations;...

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Walt Whitman

1299 words

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Prayer

The Jesus Prayer

Eastern Orthodox prayer by Desert Fathers

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Desert Fathers

Short12 words

Poetry

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Grow old along with me!

The Barefoot Boy

Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!

Universal

John Greenleaf Whittier

475 words

Poetry

The Death of Cromwell

A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbered every hair, Now in itself (the glass where all appears) Had seen the period of...

Hiawatha's Childhood

Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell Nokomis, Fell the beautiful Nokomis, She a wife, but not a mother.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1110 words

Poetry

Hymn to Mercury

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER. Sing, Muse, the son of Maia and of Jove, The Herald-child, king of Arcadia And all its pastoral hills, whom in sweet love Having been interwoven, modest May Bore Heaven's dread Supreme.

Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires.

Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in...

Spring.

THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON. TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.

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Alexander Pope

716 words

Fable

The Man and His Two Wives

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield

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Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

To Edward Noel Long, Esq

"Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."--HORACE.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

648 words

Poetry

Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha

Should you ask me, whence these stories?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

545 words

Fable

The Lion's Share

You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil

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Aesop

Short18 words

Fable

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

Cain: A Mystery

SCENE I.--_The Land without Paradise.--Time, Sunrise_. ADAM, EVE, CAIN, ABEL, ADAH, ZILLAH, _offering a Sacrifice_. God, the Eternal! All-wise!-- Who out of darkness on the deep didst make Light on the waters with a word--All Hail! with returning light--All Hail!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

21445 words

Poetry

Oscar of Alva

How sweetly shines, through azure skies, The lamp of Heaven on Lora's shore; Where Alva's hoary turrets rise, And hear the din of arms no more!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

2045 words

Fable

Belling the Cat

It is easy to propose impossible remedies

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Aesop

Short10 words

Fable

The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog

Cunning often outwits itself

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

The Lament of Tasso

Long years!--It tries the thrilling frame to bear And eagle-spirit of a Child of Song-- Long years of outrage--calumny--and wrong; Imputed madness, prisoned solitude, And the Mind's canker in its savage mood, When the impatient thirst of light and air...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1667 words

Poetry

Snowbound, a Winter Idyl

To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine...

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John Greenleaf Whittier

4004 words

Fable

The Two Pots

The strong and the weak cannot keep company

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts)

Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has greatly purpos'd; who would else In his dishonour'd works himself endure Dishonour, and be wrong'd without redress. Haste then, and...

Paradise Lost: Book 11

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most severe, What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?

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John Milton

6192 words

Fable

The Serpent and the File

It is useless attacking the insensible

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Aesop

Short11 words