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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

Inspiration

Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves alone. If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of...

Universal

Henry David Thoreau

469 words

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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

Poetry

Epistle From Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori

DEAR Doctor, I have read your play, Which is a good one in its way,-- Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels, And drenches handkerchiefs like towels With tears, that, in a flux of grief, Afford hysterical relief To shattered...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

495 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...

Universal

Andrew Marvell

2215 words

Fable

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

Please all, and you will please none

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Aesop

Short14 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...

Abba Anthony's Prayer

Eastern Orthodox prayer by Abba Anthony

The Dream

Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their developement have breath, And tears, and...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1423 words

Fable

The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog

Cunning often outwits itself

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha

Should you ask me, whence these stories?

Universal

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

545 words

Poetry

The Zucca

Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring, And infant Winter laughed upon the land All cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiring More in this world than any understand, Wept o'er the beauty, which, like sea retiring, Had left the earth bare...

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH

1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky 1.3 Thy wondrous worth proclaim, in every clime, 1.4 And so has vow'd, whilst there is world or time.

Mother and Poet

One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the sea. both my boys ! When you sit at the feast And are wanting a great song for Italy free,...

Universal

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

843 words

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 12

As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the world destroyed and world restored, If Adam aught perhaps might interpose; Then, with transition sweet, new speech resumes.

Fragment: Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday

'Tis midnight now--athwart the murky air, Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, It shows the bending oak, the roaring stream.

Obermann Once More

Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not the same! And yet I know not! All unchanged The turf, the pines, the sky! The hills in their old...

Universal

Matthew Arnold

1673 words

Fable

The Old Man and Death

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

The Sensitive Plant

A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

2118 words

Fable

The Dog and the Shadow

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow

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Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

91. The Vision

THE SUN had clos’d the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger’d maukin taen her way, To kail-yards green, While faithless snaws ilk step betray Whare she has been.

The Irish Avatar

Ere the daughter of Brunswick is cold in her grave, And her ashes still float to their home o'er the tide, Lo! George the triumphant speeds over the wave, To the long-cherished Isle which he loved like his--bride.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1154 words

Poetry

Thyrsis, a Monody

How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village street its haunted mansion lacks, And from the sign is gone Sibylla's name, And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks--...

There was a Child went Forth.

THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

Ode From the French

We do not curse thee, Waterloo!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

526 words