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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

25,762 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Poetry

83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night

MY lov’d, my honour’d, much respected friend!

Universal

Robert Burns

1421 words

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Poetry

In a Gondola

I send my heart up to thee, all my heart In this my singing.

Universal

Robert Browning

1434 words

Poetry

The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts)

Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has greatly purpos'd; who would else In his dishonour'd works himself endure Dishonour, and be wrong'd without redress. Haste then, and...

A Sketch

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

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

743 words

Poetry

The Maid Of Ocram or, Lord Gregory

Gay was the Maid of Ocram As lady eer might be Ere she did venture past a maid To love Lord Gregory. Fair was the Maid of Ocram And shining like the sun Ere her bower key was turned on...

Paradise Regained: The Third Book

So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing and fallacious drift; At length, collecting all his serpent wiles, With soothing words...

Troilus and Criseyde: Book III

O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire! O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere, Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire, In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire! O verray cause of hele and...

The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story

Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen black From the south-west stained its encroaching track, Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide, Sought the grey willows by the pasture-side; And there, while big drops bow the grassy stems, And...

Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination

High in the midst, surrounded by his peers, Magnus his ample front sublime uprears: Plac'd on his chair of state, he seems a God, While Sophs and Freshmen tremble at his nod; As all around sit wrapt in speechless gloom,...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

478 words

Fable

The Fox and the Lion

Familiarity breeds contempt

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

1 Lo dм che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci!

The Woodman and the Nightingale

A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune (I think such hearts yet never came to good) Hated to hear, under the stars or moon, One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody;-- And as...

To the Earl of Clare

Tu semper amoris Sis memor, et cari comitis ne abscedat imago. 'Argonaut', iv. Friend of my youth! when young we rov'd, Like striplings, mutually belov'd, With Friendship's purest glow; The bliss, which wing'd those rosy hours, Was such as Pleasure...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

588 words

Poetry

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Grow old along with me!

The Cry Of The Children

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

Universal

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1084 words

Fable

The Ass's Brains

Wit has always an answer ready

Universalwitcleverness

Aesop

Short9 words

Poetry

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us,--visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,-- Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant...

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

519 words

Fable

The Frogs Desiring a King

Better no rule than cruel rule

Universalleadershipgovernance

Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Waring

What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest or staff and scrip, Rather than pace up and down Any longer London town?

Childish Recollections

"I cannot but remember such things were, And were most dear to me." 'Macbeth' When slow Disease, with all her host of Pains, Chills the warm tide, which flows along the veins; When Health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

2776 words

Poetry

The Cyclops

A SATYRIC DRAMA TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES. CHORUS OF SATYRS. THE CYCLOPS. SILENUS: O Bacchus, what a world of toil, both now And ere these limbs were overworn with age, Have I endured for thee!

Elegy on Newstead Abbey

"It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with all their deeds." Ossian. fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! repentant HENRY'S pride! Of Warriors, Monks, and Dames the cloister'd tomb, Whose pensive shades around thy ruins glide, Hail to thy pile!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1137 words

Poetry

A Tale of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811

She was an aged woman; and the years Which she had numbered on her toilsome way Had bowed her natural powers to decay. She was an aged woman; yet the ray Which faintly glimmered through her starting tears, Pressed into...

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...

Universal

Robert Browning

1116 words