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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

Tom May's Death

As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on the Elysian side, And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide, Could not determine in what place he was, For whence...

Universal

Andrew Marvell

645 words

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Poetry

The Fens

Wandering by the river's edge, I love to rustle through the sedge And through the woods of reed to tear Almost as high as bushes are.

Universal

John Clare

513 words

Poetry

Sohrab and Rustum

And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream.

Universal

Matthew Arnold

6549 words

Fable

Avaricious and Envious

Vices are their own punishment

Universalgreedenvy

Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Fragment

In a huge cloud of mountain hue The sun sets dark nor shudders through One single beam to shine again Tis night already in the lane The settled clouds in ridges lie And some swell mountains calm and high Clouds...

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!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

5240 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Kid

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

Passage to India.

1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, The New by its mighty...

Universal

Walt Whitman

2002 words

Fable

The Lion and the Statue

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be

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Aesop

Short16 words

Fable

The Eagle and the Arrow

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

Universalself-destructionenemies

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus.

CHORUS OF ATHENIANS. Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought; Groves, where immortal sages taught: Where heavenly visions Plato fired, And Epicurus' lay inspired; In vain your guiltless laurels stood Unspotted long with human blood. War, horrid war, your thoughtful...

Paradise Lost: Book 06

All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light.

Sardanapalus

SCENE I.--_A Hall in the Palace_. _Salemenes_ (_solus_).

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

36867 words

Poetry

Werner: First Draft

SCENE I.--_A ruinous chateau on the Silesian frontier of Bohemia_. THE storm is at it's height--how the wind howls, Like an unearthly voice, through these lone chambers! And the rain patters on the flapping casement Which quivers in it's frame--the...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

4215 words

Poetry

Pheidippides

First I salute this soil of the blessed, river and rock! Gods of my birthplace, dæmons and heroes, honour to all! Then I name thee, claim thee for our patron, co-equal in praise --Ay, with Zeus the Defender, with Her of the ægis and spear!

The Canterbury Tales. The Manciple's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. WEET ye not where there stands a little town, Which that y-called is Bob-up-and-down, Under the Blee, in Canterbury way? There gan our Hoste for to jape and play, And saide, "Sirs, what? Dun is in the mire.

Universal

Geoffrey Chaucer

2508 words

Fable

The Fox and the Cat

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon

Universalsimplicitywisdom

Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Doctor's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. ["YEA, let that passe," quoth our Host, "as now. Sir Doctor of Physik, I praye you, Tell us a tale of some honest mattere." "It shall be done, if that ye will it hear," Said this Doctor; and his tale gan anon.

Epistle to Mr Jervas, With Mr Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's 'art of Painting.'

This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This from no venal or ungrateful Muse.

The Four Ages of Man

1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: son unto Phlegm, grand-child to water, 1.4 Unstable, supple, moist, and cold's his Nature.

The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Italian in England

That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide Her blood-hounds thro' the country-side, Breathed hot an instant on my trace,-- I made, six days, a hiding-place Of that...

Universal

Robert Browning

905 words

Fable

The Hart and the Hunter

We often despise what is most useful to us

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Aesop

Short14 words

Poetry

The Devil's Walk. a Ballad

Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

801 words