---
title: 'Homiletic Illustrations from Shakespeare'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Ormsbee Murray'
date: 1885-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Preaching'
- 'Sermons'
- 'Literature'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 17'
- 'Titus 1'
- 'Matthew 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/murray-1885-homiletic-illustrations-from-shakespeare
---

# Homiletic Illustrations from Shakespeare

Advice for preachers on using apt, restrained literary quotations—especially Shakespeare—to illustrate sermons. Gives categorized examples on temptation, conscience, virtues, and vices.

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