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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

To D--

In thee, I fondly hop'd to clasp A friend, whom death alone could sever; Till envy, with malignant grasp, Detach'd thee from my breast for ever.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap -- Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn't keep They storm the Earth and stun the...

Lain in Nature -- so suffice us

Lain in Nature -- so suffice us The enchantless Pod When we advertise existence For the missing Seed -- Maddest Heart that God created Cannot...

Who has not found the Heaven -- below --

Who has not found the Heaven -- below -- Will fail of it above -- For Angels rent the House next ours, Wherever we remove...

In snow thou comest --

In snow thou comest -- Thou shalt go with the resuming ground, The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee's advancing sound. In fear thou...

Universal

Emily Dickinson

Short40 words

Historical

On This Day: Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence

11/11 (1918): Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.

Universal

Short17 words

Poetry

I hide myself within my flower,

I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me -- Almost a loneliness.

On the Eyes of Miss a----H---

Anne's Eye is liken'd to the _Sun_, From it such Beams of Beauty fall; And _this_ can be denied by none, For like the _Sun_, it shines on _All_.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Short54 words

Poetry

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly --

'Twould ease -- a Butterfly -- Elate -- a Bee -- Thou'rt neither -- Neither -- thy capacity -- But, Blossom, were I, I would...

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?

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?

Fragment: Wine of the Fairies

I am drunk with the honey wine Of the moon-unfolded eglantine, Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.

Where Thou art -- that -- is Home --

Where Thou art -- that -- is Home -- Cashmere -- or Calvary -- the same -- Degree -- or Shame -- I scarce esteem...

To----

I heed not that my earthly lot Hath--little of Earth in it-- That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute:-- I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that _you_ sorrow...

Fragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing'

The death knell is ringing The raven is singing The earth worm is creeping The mourners are weeping Ding dong, bell--

Nature assigns the Sun --

Nature assigns the Sun -- That -- is Astronomy -- Nature cannot enact a Friend -- That -- is Astrology.

Like Rain it sounded till it curved

Like Rain it sounded till it curved And then I new 'twas Wind -- It walked as wet as any Wave But swept as dry...

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Emily Dickinson

Short78 words

Historical

On This Day: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continen

7/4 (1776): American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

Universal

Short17 words

Poetry

Hope is a strange invention --

Hope is a strange invention -- A Patent of the Heart -- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out -- Of this electric Adjunct Not...

Universal

Emily Dickinson

Short30 words

Historical

On This Day: Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House

8/6 (1991): Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

Universal

Short20 words

Poetry

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril

Glass was the Street -- in tinsel Peril Tree and Traveller stood -- Filled was the Air with merry venture Hearty with Boys the Road...

I think that the Root of the Wind is Water --

I think that the Root of the Wind is Water -- It would not sound so deep Were it a Firmamental Product -- Airs no...

Whatever it is -- she has tried it --

Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- Do not chastise the Dove...

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!

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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