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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?”

24,080 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

Fable

The Dog and the Wolf

Better starve free than be a fat slave

Universalfreedomslavery

Aesop

Short13 words

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Fable

The Mountains in Labour

Much outcry, little outcome

Universalexpectationsdisappointment

Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Passage to India.

1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, The New by its mighty...

185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water

MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne’er assails in vain; Embolden’d thus, I beg you’ll hear Your humble slave complain, How saucy Phoebus’ scorching beams, In flaming summer-pride, Dry-withering, waste my foamy streams, And drink my crystal tide.

Universal

Robert Burns

498 words

Fable

The Cock and the Pearl

Precious things are for those that can prize them

Universalvalueappreciation

Aesop

Short14 words

Fable

The Tortoise and the Birds

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions

Universaltrustdanger

Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

Ode on St Cecilia's Day,

Descend, ye Nine!

Hymn to Mercury

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER. Sing, Muse, the son of Maia and of Jove, The Herald-child, king of Arcadia And all its pastoral hills, whom in sweet love Having been interwoven, modest May Bore Heaven's dread Supreme.

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...

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,...

Universal

John Milton

3434 words

Fable

The Four Oxen and the Lion

United we stand, divided we fall

Universalunitystrength

Aesop

Short12 words

Fable

The Fisher

When you are in a man's power you must do as he bids you

Universalpowersubmission

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

Paradise Lost: Book 11

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most severe, What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?

An Essay on Man

OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE. AWAKE, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings.

Universal

Alexander Pope

8932 words

Fable

The Fox Without a Tail

Distrust interested advice

Universaladviceself-interest

Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

To Edward Noel Long, Esq

"Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."--HORACE.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

648 words

Poetry

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?

Paradise Lost: Book 01

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly...

The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci

CANTO THE FIRST. In the beginning was the Word next God; God was the Word, the Word no less was He: This was in the beginning, to my mode Of thinking, and without Him nought could be: Therefore, just Lord!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

5240 words

Poetry

The Progress of Poesy

A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers that round them blow Drink life and fragrance as they flow.

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude

'The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket!' Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!

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...

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

515 words

Fable

The Hart in the Ox-Stall

Nothing escapes the master's eye

Universalvigilancedeception

Aesop

Short10 words

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,...

Universal

William Shakespeare

2227 words