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Home›Traditions›Liberation Theology

Liberation Theology Illustrations

God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed, with salvation as liberation from all forms of oppression.

Key question: “How does the Gospel liberate the oppressed and challenge unjust structures in society?”

25,092 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens

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

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543 words

Poetry

Hiawatha's Childhood

Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell Nokomis, Fell the beautiful Nokomis, She a wife, but not a mother.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1110 words

Poetry

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 Dog in the Manger

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves

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Aesop

Short14 words

Poetry

The Barefoot Boy

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

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John Greenleaf Whittier

475 words

Poetry

The Corsair.

CANTO THE FIRST. "----nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria,----" Dante, _Inferno_, v. "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear,...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

12647 words

Poetry

The Witch of Atlas

TO MARY (ON HER OBJECTING TO THE FOLLOWING POEM, UPON THE SCORE OF ITS CONTAINING NO HUMAN INTEREST). How, my dear Mary,--are you critic-bitten (For vipers kill, though dead) by some review, That you condemn these verses I have written,...

Peter Bell the Third. by Miching Mallecho, Esq

Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch--some sipping tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all--damned! "Peter Bell", by W. WORDSWORTH. OPHELIA.--What means this, my lord?

The Cellar Door

By the old tavern door on the causey there lay A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray, And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop; And there stood...

Strayed Reveller, The

The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through my soul! Thou standest, smiling Down on me!

Introduction To The Song Of Hiawatha

Should you ask me, whence these stories?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

545 words

Poetry

Cain: A Mystery

SCENE I.--_The Land without Paradise.--Time, Sunrise_. ADAM, EVE, CAIN, ABEL, ADAH, ZILLAH, _offering a Sacrifice_. God, the Eternal! All-wise!-- Who out of darkness on the deep didst make Light on the waters with a word--All Hail! with returning light--All Hail!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

21445 words

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 03

Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

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!

The Lament of Tasso

Long years!--It tries the thrilling frame to bear And eagle-spirit of a Child of Song-- Long years of outrage--calumny--and wrong; Imputed madness, prisoned solitude, And the Mind's canker in its savage mood, When the impatient thirst of light and air...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

1667 words

Poetry

A Sketch

"Honest--honest Iago! If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee." Shakespeare.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

743 words

Poetry

Book II. Satire VI. the First Part Imitated in the Year 1714, by Dr

SWIFT; THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS. I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land,...

Universal

Alexander Pope

1257 words

Fable

The Hart in the Ox-Stall

Nothing escapes the master's eye

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Aesop

Short10 words

Poetry

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?

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Edmund Spenser

883 words

Fable

The Wolf and the Crane

Gratitude and greed go not together

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

A Tale (Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic.")

What a pretty tale you told me Once upon a time --Said you found it somewhere (scold me!) Was it prose or was it rhyme, Greek or Latin? Greek, you said, While your shoulder propped my head.

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.

Windsor-Forest.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE LORD LANSDOWNE. 'Non injussa cano: te nostrae, Vare, myricae, Te nemus omne canet; nee Phoebo gratior ulla est, Quam sibi quae Vari praescripsit pagina nomen.' VIRG. Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats, At once...

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Alexander Pope

2931 words

Fable

The One-Eyed Doe

You cannot escape your fate

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Aesop

Short8 words