Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
— Addison
Addison.
Good allegories bring clarity and beauty to a message, like light illuminating a discourse.
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One who makes a large use of the illustration in teach- ing says, “I have been told by people of all ages that I teach t…
Illustrations are like streetlamps, scarcely noticed, but throwing floods of light upon the road.
— J. H. Jowett, D.D.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
— Edgar Albert Guest
A sermon without an application does no more good than the singingofa skylark : itmay teach,but it does not impel; and t…
— Bishop Horne
A pastor relates this experience: “In a certain Church where I was pastor, a class of boys of adolescent age was left wi…
St. Jerome tells us that once when he asked Gregory of Nazianzus for the explanation of a difficult word in St. Luke tha…
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