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Eastern Orthodox Illustrations

Reading Scripture as a path to Theosis — deification and union with God.

Key question: “How does this passage draw us into the mystery of God and guide us on the path of theosis?”

23,917 sermon illustrations through the Eastern Orthodox lens

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...

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Edmund Spenser

2020 words

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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,...

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William Shakespeare

2227 words

Fable

The Wind and the Sun

Kindness effects more than severity

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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

Short11 words

Fable

The Hare With Many Friends

He that has many friends, has no friends

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Aesop

Short13 words

Poetry

Song of the Redwood-Tree.

1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection—a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing—or hamadryads departing; A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.

The Shepheardes Calender: April

APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ytorne? Or is thy Bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

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;...

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

Abt Vogler: After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention

Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of...

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...

Holy-Cross Day

Fee, faw, fum! bubble and squeak! Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week. Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough, Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff, Take the church-road, for the bell's due chime Gives us the summons--'tis sermon-time! Boh, here's Barnabas!

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Robert Browning

799 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

One Word More: To E.B.B.

There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together; Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

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Robert Browning

1317 words

Fable

The Jay and the Peacock

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds

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Aesop

Short15 words

Poetry

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.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1600 words

Poetry

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...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1423 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Lamb

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

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Aesop

Short11 words

Fable

The Bundle of Sticks

Union gives strength

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Aesop

Short7 words

Poetry

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...

Epistle to Miss Blount, With the Works of Voiture.

In these gay thoughts the Loves and Graces shine, And all the writer lives in every line; His easy art may happy nature seem, Trifles themselves are elegant in him.

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Alexander Pope

557 words

Fable

The Man and His Two Wives

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield

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Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

59. Death and Dr. Hornbook

SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d: Ev’n ministers they hae been kenn’d, In holy rapture, A rousing whid at times to vend, And nail’t wi’ Scripture.

Paradise Regained: The First Book

I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,...

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John Milton

3434 words