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Illustrations Unlimited: A Topical Collection of Hundreds of Stories, Quotations, & Humor for Speakers, Writers, Pastors and Teachers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Need a quotation or story for your sermon or article? Illustrations Unlimited has more than 1700 anecdotes, quotations, proverbs, and bits of humor that will add spice and color to your written or spoken presentation. About the Editor

EAGLES A certain man went through a forest seeking any bird of interest he might find. He caught a young eagle, brought it home, and put it among the fowls and ducks and turkeys, and gave it chicken food to eat even though it was an eagle, the king of birds. Five years later, a naturalist came to see him and, after passing through his garden, said: “That bird is an eagle, not a chicken.” “Yes,” said the owner, “but I have trained it to be a chicken. It is no longer an eagle, it is a chicken, even