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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?”

23,951 sermon illustrations through the Eastern Orthodox lens

Poetry

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved --

I cannot meet the Spring unmoved -- I feel the old desire -- A Hurry with a lingering, mixed, A Warrant to be fair --...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security con

7/4 (2009): The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.

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Poetry

So give me back to Death --

So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And now, by Life deprived, In...

Fragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity'

O thou immortal deity Whose throne is in the depth of human thought, I do adjure thy power and thee By all that man may be, by all that he is not, By all that he has been and yet must be!

The Little Boy Lost

"Father, father, where are you going? Oh do not walk so fast!

Robbed by Death -- but that was easy --

Robbed by Death -- but that was easy -- To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing -- Robbed by Liberty For Her...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal co

7/20 (1807): Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.

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Poetry

Epigram. From the French of RulhièRes

IF for silver, or for gold, You could melt ten thousand pimples Into half a dozen dimples, Then your face we might behold, Looking, doubtless, much more snugly, Yet even _then_ 'twould be damned ugly.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

'Tis One by One -- the Father counts --

'Tis One by One -- the Father counts -- And then a Tract between Set Cypherless -- to teach the Eye The Value of its...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, atta

6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

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Poetry

Fragment: 'Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere'

Is it that in some brighter sphere We part from friends we meet with here? Or do we see the Future pass Over the Present's dusky glass?

Through the Dark Sod -- as Education

Through the Dark Sod -- as Education -- The Lily passes sure -- Feels her white foot -- no trepidation -- Her faith -- no...

A happy lip -- breaks sudden

A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- now -- But this one,...

So much Summer

So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate -- Would a Smile's minute bestowing Too exorbitant To the Lady With the Guinea Look -- if She...

Declaiming Waters none may dread --

Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature -- they are full --

Fragment: A Roman's Chamber

In the cave which wild weeds cover Wait for thine aethereal lover; For the pallid moon is waning, O'er the spiral cypress hanging And the moon no cloud is staining.

Fragment: 'A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young'

A gentle story of two lovers young, Who met in innocence and died in sorrow, And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung Like curses on them; are ye slow to borrow The lore of truth from such a tale?

Summer -- we all have seen --

Summer -- we all have seen -- A few of us -- believed -- A few -- the more aspiring Unquestionably loved -- But Summer...

Remorse -- is Memory -- awake --

Remorse -- is Memory -- awake -- Her Parties all astir -- A Presence of Departed Acts -- At window -- and at Door --...

Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides

OH how I wish that an embargo Had kept in port the good ship Argo! Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks, Had never passed the Azure rocks; But now I fear her trip will be a Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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On This Day: Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.

11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.

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Poetry

Fragment: 'I Faint, I Perish With My Love!'

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow Frail as a cloud whose pale Under the evening's ever-changing glow: I die like mist upon the gale, And like a wave under the calm I fail.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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On This Day: At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.

5/8 (1877): At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.

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Poetry

It would have starved a Gnat --

It would have starved a Gnat -- To live so small as I -- And yet I was a living Child -- With Food's necessity...

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Emily Dickinson

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