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Home›Traditions›Reformed/Presbyterian

Reformed/Presbyterian Illustrations

God's absolute sovereignty, covenant theology, and Westminster Confessional standards.

Key question: “How does this text display God's sovereign grace and purpose, and ultimately bring glory to His name?”

24,338 sermon illustrations through the Reformed/Presbyterian lens

Fable

The One-Eyed Doe

You cannot escape your fate

Universalfatevigilance

Aesop

Short8 words

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Poetry

The Flitting

I've left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the hazel's happy green, The blue bell's quiet hanging blooms, Where...

Universal

John Clare

1387 words

Fable

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Universalpretenseidentity

Aesop

Short17 words

Poetry

Tam O'Shanter

A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." —Gawin Douglas.

Spring.

THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON. TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.

Universal

Alexander Pope

716 words

Fable

The Man and His Two Wives

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield

Universalcompromiseidentity

Aesop

Short17 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...

To Think of Time.

1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded these earth-beetles? Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?

Universal

Walt Whitman

1605 words

Fable

The Fox and the Lion

Familiarity breeds contempt

Universalfamiliarityfear

Aesop

Short8 words

Fable

The Young Thief and His Mother

Train up a child in the way he should go

Universalparentingdiscipline

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

Satire II. to Mr Bethel.

SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.

Messiah.

A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.' Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the song: To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades, The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids, Delight no more--O Thou...

CHARMIDES

He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's prow, and let the foam Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously, And holding wave and wind in boy's despite Peered...

One Word More: To E.B.B.

There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together; Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Universal

Robert Browning

1317 words

Fable

The Four Oxen and the Lion

United we stand, divided we fall

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

Snowbound, a Winter Idyl

To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine...

Universal

John Greenleaf Whittier

4004 words

Fable

The Fisher

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

Universalpowersubmission

Aesop

Short16 words

Prayer

Prayer of Restless Hearts

Western Church prayer by Augustine of Hippo

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 Wolf and the Lamb

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

Universalinjusticepower

Aesop

Short11 words

Fable

The Lion's Share

You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil

Universalfairnesspower

Aesop

Short18 words

Poetry

To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics

Rail on, Rail on, ye heartless crew! My strains were never meant for you; Remorseless Rancour still reveal, And damn the verse you cannot feel.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

520 words

Poetry

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...

310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale

WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate, While we sit bousing at the nappy, An’ getting fou and unco happy, We think na...

Universal

Robert Burns

1296 words