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Home›Traditions›Black Church Tradition

Black Church Tradition Illustrations

Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.

Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”

24,061 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens

Poetry

To Edward Noel Long, Esq

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

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

648 words

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Fable

The Fox and the Lion

Familiarity breeds contempt

Universalfamiliarityfear

Aesop

Short8 words

Fable

The Jay and the Peacock

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds

Universalidentitypretense

Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven wrought, Whose wondrous beauty, breathing sweet delights Do kindle love in high-conceited sprights; I fain to tell the things that...

Troilus and Criseyde: Book II

Out of these blake wawes for to sayle, O wind, O wind, the weder ginneth clere; For in this see the boot hath swich travayle, Of my conning, that unnethe I it stere: This see clepe I the tempestous matere...

Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country

'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still, Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

562 words

Fable

The Lion's Share

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

Universalfairnesspower

Aesop

Short18 words

Poetry

306. Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790

FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife, Friend o’ my muse, friend o’ my life, Are ye as idle’s I am? Come then, wi’ uncouth kintra fleg, O’er Pegasus I’ll fling my leg, And ye shall see me try him.

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!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

21445 words

Fable

The Frog and the Ox

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction

Universalpridehumility

Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

The Flitting

I've left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the hazel's happy green, The blue bell's quiet hanging blooms, Where...

The Cry Of The Children

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

Universal

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1084 words

Fable

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

Please all, and you will please none

Universalcriticismself-confidence

Aesop

Short14 words

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...

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;...

185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water

MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne’er assails in vain; Embolden’d thus, I beg you’ll hear Your humble slave complain, How saucy Phoebus’ scorching beams, In flaming summer-pride, Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams, And drink my crystal tide.

Universal

Robert Burns

498 words

Fable

The Tortoise and the Birds

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions

Universaltrustdanger

Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

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.

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude

'The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket!' Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!

Aurora Leigh (excerpts)

[Book 1] I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate features, -- paler, near as grave ; But then my mother's smile breaks up the whole, And makes it better sometimes than itself.

Universal

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1600 words

Fable

The Bundle of Sticks

Union gives strength

Universalunitystrength

Aesop

Short7 words

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 01

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly...

Universal

John Milton

5188 words

Fable

The Wind and the Sun

Kindness effects more than severity

Universalkindnesspersuasion

Aesop

Short10 words

Fable

The Mountains in Labour

Much outcry, little outcome

Universalexpectationsdisappointment

Aesop

Short8 words