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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

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The Fisher

When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you

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Fable

The Mountains in Labour

Much outcry, little outcome

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci

CANTO THE FIRST. In the beginning was the Word next God; God was the Word, the Word no less was He: This was in the beginning, to my mode Of thinking, and without Him nought could be: Therefore, just Lord!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

5240 words

Poetry

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. "O Cжsar, we who are about to die Salute you!" was the gladiators' cry In the arena, standing face to face With death and with the Roman populace.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Fable

The Man and the Wooden God

The gods help those who help themselves

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Aesop

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Poetry

519. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2

FY, let us a’ to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin’ there; For Murray’s light horse are to muster, And O how the heroes will swear!

An Essay on Criticism.

PART FIRST. 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.

Abba Anthony's Prayer

Eastern Orthodox prayer by Abba Anthony

The Blues: A Literary Eclogue

"Nimium ne crede colori."--Virgil, ECLOGUE THE FIRST. _London.--Before the Door of a Lecture Room_. _Enter_ TRACY, _meeting_ INKEL. You're too late. Is it over? Nor will be this hour. But the benches are crammed, like a garden in flower.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

5055 words

Fable

The Dog in the Manger

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves

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Aesop

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Fable

The One-Eyed Doe

You cannot escape your fate

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Aesop

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Fable

The Fox and the Lion

Familiarity breeds contempt

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Aesop

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Fable

The Frogs Desiring a King

Better no rule than cruel rule

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts)

'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

1 Lo dм che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci!

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Christina Rossetti

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Fable

The Wolf and the Lamb

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

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Poetry

Hyperion

BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about...

To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us

To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage.

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Ben Jonson

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Fable

The Ass and the Lapdog

Clumsy jesting is no joke

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Cellar Door

By the old tavern door on the causey there lay A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray, And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop; And there stood...

310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale

WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate, While we sit bousing at the nappy, An’ getting fou and unco happy, We think na...

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Robert Burns

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Fable

The Old Man and Death

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified

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Aesop

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Poetry

Lord Walter's Wife

I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive in their depth, as the kraken beneath the sea-blue.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

689 words

Poetry

Adonais

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC. Aster prin men elampes eni zooisin Eoos nun de thanon lampeis Esperos en phthimenois.--PLATO. I weep for Adonais--he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

3470 words