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Home›Traditions›Charismatic

Charismatic Illustrations

The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.

Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”

23,591 sermon illustrations through the Charismatic lens

Poetry

The Rape of the Lock:

AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. 'Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis.' MART. TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR. What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing--This verse to Caryll, Muse!

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Alexander Pope

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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...

Ghasta or, the Avenging Demon!!!

the owlet flaps her wing, In the pathless dell beneath, Hark! night ravens loudly sing, Tidings of despair and death.-- Horror covers all the sky, Clouds of darkness blot the moon, Prepare!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Fable

The Man and the Satyr

No one should blow hot and cold with the same breath

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Aesop

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Poetry

The Woodman and the Nightingale

A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune (I think such hearts yet never came to good) Hated to hear, under the stars or moon, One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody;-- And as...

Beppo: A Venetian Story

_Rosalind_. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; Look, you lisp, and wear strange suits: disable all the benefits of your own country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are; or I will...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Troilus and Criseyde: Book III

O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire! O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere, Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire, In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire! O verray cause of hele and...

Satire IV.

THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED. Well, if it be my time to quit the stage, Adieu to all the follies of the age! I die in charity with fool and knave, Secure of peace at least beyond the grave.

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us,--visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,-- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant...

A Tale of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811

She was an aged woman; and the years Which she had numbered on her toilsome way Had bowed her natural powers to decay. She was an aged woman; yet the ray Which faintly glimmered through her starting tears, Pressed into...

The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa

Dearest, best and brightest, Come away, To the woods and to the fields! Dearer than this fairest day Which, like thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough Year just awake In its cradle in the brake.

The Barefoot Boy

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

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John Greenleaf Whittier

475 words

Poetry

A Lover's Complaint

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale; Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,...

Tam O'Shanter

A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." —Gawin Douglas.

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Robert Burns

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Fable

The Nurse and the Wolf

Enemies' promises were made to be broken

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Aesop

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Fable

The Wind and the Sun

Kindness effects more than severity

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Aesop

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Fable

The Cock and the Pearl

Precious things are for those that can prize them

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Aesop

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Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

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Aesop

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Fable

The Tree and the Reed

Obscurity often brings safety

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Aesop

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Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 08

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear; Then, as new waked, thus gratefully replied.

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

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

Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country

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

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

562 words

Poetry

Ode to a Lady Whose Lover Was Killed by a Ball, Which at the Same Time Shivered a Portrait Next His Heart

_On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie, mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu qu'une_.--[_Réflexions_ ... du Duc de la Rochefoucauld, No.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

543 words

Poetry

The Devil's Drive

THE Devil returned to Hell by two, And he stayed at home till five; When he dined on some homicides done in _ragoût_, And a rebel or so in an _Irish_ stew, And sausages made of a self-slain Jew, And...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1893 words