Illustrations

abandoning ship (one’s religion): w95 2/1 3
abhorrence for what is wicked like disgust for rotten food: w22.03 5
acquiring Bible truth like effort to get free bananas: w18.11 4
Adam and Eve began to die “in the day” of sinning as would a severed branch (Ge 5:5): g 6/06 29
Adam and Eve’s disobedience like pilot ignoring navigation instructions: w18.04 5-6
Adam and Eve slowly die like cut flowers: w18.12 20
angel became Devil like accountant who becomes thief: w11 3/1 21
anxiety like an anchor: w16.09 3
atmosphere prepared like cup of coffee: w16.09 30
attitudes and desires corrode as if by rust: w96 6/15 17, 19-20, 22
avoiding erotic images like avoiding flash from welder’s torch: w14 4/1 10-11
bad traits like rotten beams: w08 11/15 4
baptismal candidates like wood carved into basic shape: w08 11/15 3
being “born again” like non-native being adopted: w09 4/1 6, 10-11
benefits of discipline likened to way fruit matures: w07 3/1 19
Bible compared to outdated textbook: wp18.1 3
Bible guidance like Marshallese stick charts: w06 10/1 32
Bible guidance like that of a GPS or map: ypq 30
Bible inspired as businessman might author letter: w12 6/15 26-27
Bible like a flashlight: wp18.1 14
Bible like a fruit tree: g 3/10 28-29
Bible like an unscathed monument: wp18.1 4
Bible like a user’s manual: w13 12/1 4-5
Bible reading in haste like gulping down a delicious meal: w22.10 8
Bible reading like diet of heart-attack victim: w10 7/1 21
Bible reading like sea anchor: w00 8/15 32
Bible’s guidance like signposts: w98 10/1 32
Bible standards like speed limits: w22.10 8
Bible study like filling gas tank: w10 6/15 4-5
building up a family the way one builds a house: kl 140-141, 149
calling for help as if a stranded lamb: w02 3/1 16
change from Law Covenant to ‘law of Christ’ like change in nation’s constitution: w10 2/1 14
checking spirituality as if using pilot’s checklist: w13 3/15 13-14
choosing entertainment as if food: w19.10 30
choosing entertainment as if fruit: lvs 75-76; lv 62, 69-70
choosing entertainment like walking on mountain path: lvs 82
choosing reading material as if food: sg 20
Christendom like babysitter who neglects children to fix house: cf 186-187
Christian personalities like vehicles on road: kl 164
Christians keep free from world just as medical professionals avoid infection: w18.01 27
Christians like a skyscraper: w23.07 14
Christians like rough diamonds: w98 5/15 24-27
Christians like trees in a forest: w22.11 12-13
Christians like water-repellent diamonds: w95 12/15 27
communication like door, rusty or lubricated: w06 4/15 7
competition like cracks that weaken a clay vessel: w21.07 14
complaining spirit like tendency to rust: w06 7/15 16-17
confidence in Jehovah as in flight instruments: w96 5/1 21-24
conscience like a compass: w18.06 16; lv 14-15, 17; w09 8/15 19-20; g 8/08 27; w02 2/15 3, 5
conscience like a watchman: w19.01 17-18
conscience like navigational system: lvs 16-17; w01 11/1 3
conscience like warning lights: w05 10/1 14
control during stormy circumstances like a sailor’s: w08 7/15 31
conversation like game of catch: mwb18.09 8
coping with problems the way a tree bends in the wind: w01 2/1 28-29
coping with trials as with traffic: w14 4/15 30
counsel like friend stopping you from stepping into traffic: w20.11 21
cultivating fruitage of spirit as would a farmer: w10 3/15 15-16
daily reviewing Jehovah’s blessings like mountain climber taking in the view: w23.01 19
death like a flame going out: bh 59; w07 1/15 24
death of mate like uprooting intertwined tree roots: w19.06 23
dedication and baptism similar to marriage: w98 11/15 12
dedication like giving a car as a gift: w16.03 7
“deep things of God” like underwater coral reef: w07 11/1 27
deliverance from sin and death as from incurable disease: w09 9/15 25, 29
depression like the flu: ijwyp article 114
desire and greed likened to campfire and forest fire: w01 6/15 6
disciple-making like fishing: w19.07 18-19
discipline guides child like a rudder: g18.2 9
disciplining children like gardening: w14 7/1 10
disfellowshipping like isolating ailing sheep: w21.10 10-11
DNA like a recipe: w16.09 30-31
doubts creep in as through leaks: w96 5/1 22
drawing closer to Jehovah and spouse as if climbing a mountain: lv 121-123
drawing out people in ministry as would a doctor: w19.03 22
elderly honored as is Lone Cypress (California, U.S.A.): w10 5/15 6-7
elders’ ministry like piece of music: w97 8/1 18
elders train brothers as if caring for garden: w15 4/15 5-7, 9-10, 12
end of world like eviction of harmful tenants: w11 3/1 8-9
endurance and resignation likened to attitudes of two prisoners: cf 67
enduring to end like passenger swimming to shore: w16.04 17
eternal life like abundance of air: w04 11/15 5-6
evaluating world’s attractions as one would clothes: w03 4/15 12-13
evidence of God in creation like footsteps behind a door: w12 7/1 5
expressing convictions as if tossing a ball: w23.09 19
expressing feelings as if tossing a ball: g01 1/8 10; kl 144
faith like a living plant: w16.10 27
faith like water in desert: ia 206
faith like wood fire: w15 10/15 10
false religion like neighborhood contamination: bh 154
false worship like counterfeit money: bh 144-145; w08 2/15 19
faults of friends like raspberry seeds: w00 12/1 22
field ministry and internal ministry like two wings on bird: w09 1/15 14-15
field ministry like rescue work: w21.05 19; km 12/98 1
fight against sin like rowing upriver: w90 12/1 17
flowers that weather storms: w94 10/15 32
following Jesus’ footsteps as if following a guide: w21.04 2
forgiving others like cleaning heirloom: jr 152-153
friends are like eyeglasses: ijwyp article 114
friends are like two people in a car: g05 7/22 21
getting through last days as if canoeing through rapids: w97 4/1 4-5
gift of speech to be used like gift of a car: lv 133
glory from men obscures glory from Jehovah as city lights obscure starlight: w13 2/15 26
goals like blueprints: g18.2 15
God, like a parent, does not use Satan to punish ones he misled: w14 5/15 9-10
God’s spirit like sun’s rays: g 7/06 15
God’s spirit produces fruit as does rain on an orchard: w03 7/1 6
God superior to Jesus as father is to son: w14 5/15 9
good values like reliable compass: g18.2 10
gossip like scattering feathers: w11 7/15 19
gradually leaving truth like boat drifting: w18.11 9-10
growing to adulthood like ascending a stairway: g 4/08 27-28
happiness like good health routine: g18.1 3
heart like united or disunited sports team: w20.06 13
heart opened and closed as if by a gatekeeper: w19.01 17-18
helping an alcoholic (not giving in to family opposition): w95 10/1 9
helping one another as do elephants: w04 9/15 13
helping ourselves and others as if survivors of shipwreck: w97 1/15 22
helping weak as medical teams assist injured: w14 6/15 25
holding grudges like picking at a wound: w21.12 12
holding to Jehovah’s guidance as a child does a father’s hand: g96 11/8 26-27
holiday origins as important as where piece of candy was found: bh 159
holy spirit like wind for sailboat: w19.11 10-11; w10 3/15 18
humans like damaged factory machines: w95 1/15 4-6
illustrations are like a microphone: w22.01 13
illustrations turn ears into eyes: w22.01 12
imperfections like bulges in tire: w07 2/15 28
imperfections like surface defects of house: w08 3/15 27
imperfect perception like fogged eyeglasses: w22.02 3
improving preaching ability like playing guitar: w19.04 3
inactive ones like lost sheep: rj 4
influences like ocean undercurrents: g02 11/22 13
integrity like a mansion made of bricks of obedience: cf 65
integrity like plans for a house: w08 12/15 7
Jehovah, like a friend, does not ask us to carry loads too heavy: lvs 11; lv 11-12; w09 8/15 19
Jehovah, like a judge, has various aspects to his personality: w07 9/1 4-5
Jehovah, like a judge, is not cause of wrongdoers’ suffering: w03 9/1 11
Jehovah, like a judge, wipes repentant human’s record clean: w14 2/15 28
Jehovah, like an airline pilot, guides us through storms: w19.01 4-5
Jehovah, like a parent, appreciates gifts of his servants: w18.07 23; w07 2/1 17-18
Jehovah, like a parent, delights to see honesty: lvs 187; lv 160
Jehovah, like a parent, grants requests at best time: w15 4/15 25; w14 4/1 6
Jehovah, like a parent, inculcates good values: w18.11 19-20
Jehovah, like a parent, sees love in work offered: w05 12/1 12
Jehovah, like a parent, teaches us to walk: jd 133-134; w05 11/1 21; w05 11/15 28
Jehovah, like a rock climbing instructor, guides us: w14 6/15 30
Jehovah, like weather forecaster, warns others: w19.10 6
Jehovah and Jesus in creation like architect and builder: cf 131
Jehovah feels about obedience as would a human father: cf 56
Jehovah handles issues as would a family head: w07 9/15 6; kl 75-76; rs 429
Jehovah handles issues as would a schoolteacher: bh 110-112
Jehovah like a friend who knows where you are and where each road leads: w23.08 8
Jehovah like parents who love and care for defective child: w21.07 12-13
Jehovah looks for good qualities as if looking for gems: g 4/12 28
Jehovah looks for good qualities as if panning for gold: cl 245-246
Jehovah offers hand as would a father: w12 1/1 18
Jehovah offers hand as would a guide on a mountain trail: w04 12/15 17-18
Jehovah reaches purpose as traveler reaches destination: w11 5/15 21-22
Jehovah’s blessing like effect of wholesome food: w10 9/15 11
Jehovah’s love like a cord or rope: w20.06 27
Jehovah’s perspective like seeing aerial view: w12 11/15 3
Jehovah’s standards like guardrail on narrow mountain road: w21.12 23
Jehovah’s standards like those of automobile maintenance: jd 87-88
Jehovah’s thoughts become ours just as a child adopts parents’ thinking: w18.11 23
Jehovah to restore mankind as if work of art: cl 246; w90 2/15 22
Jehovah uses foreknowledge as one would use ability to sing: cl 178
Jehovah uses foreknowledge as one would use recorded TV program: w11 1/1 14
Jehovah uses visual aids as would a father: rr 42
Jesus and holy spirit act as would a tourist guide: kr 49
Jesus directs ministry as driver directs car: bt 127
Jesus’ followers to make disciples as would a farmer hiring harvesters: cf 87-88
Jesus fulfills Law as builder would fulfill contract: w10 2/1 13
Jesus like an archery instructor: w12 2/15 3
Jesus’ obedience under suffering like sword of hardened steel: cf 56-57
Jesus revealed Father to humans as transformer lowers voltage: w11 4/1 7
joy like flame in a lantern: w21.02 28
joy of ministry like providing for one’s family: w97 1/15 23-24
keeping thinking clean like cleaning one’s home: w23.01 8
knowledge, understanding, wisdom like reaction to seeing bus approaching: w14 12/15 7
learning about God like learning about one’s boss: ol 5
learning “grammar” of Bible principles: w95 6/15 18-21, 23
learning to love like learning a new language: w99 2/15 18, 22-23
life as Christ’s disciples like a journey: w15 2/15 10-11
life cycle of humans like that of animals: w97 2/15 10-11
life like priceless painting: w23.02 20
looking below the surface as a doctor does a patient: w20.04 14-15
love, like a campfire, must be fed: w23.05 20, 24
love, like a plant, needs nourishment and care: cf 132-133
love for Jehovah begins like an apple seed: bh 186-187
love for Jehovah like a fire that must be fed: w18.06 15
love for Jehovah revealed by love for brothers as pulse reveals health of heart: w23.11 9
love of money like itch from mosquito bite: g 4/06 5
lover of self like the hedgehog: w18.01 23
love within congregation like links in anchor chain: w07 1/1 9
loyalty sticks like burs on clothing: w05 9/1 4, 6-7
marriage, like automobile, lasts if maintained: w11 2/1 3
marriage commitment like anchor during storm: g18.2 4
marriage like a decorated house: lv 130, 132
marriage like intertwined tree roots: w19.06 23
marriage like teamwork of pilot and copilot: g18.2 5
marriage like trapeze artists or figure-skating partners: w01 5/15 16
married couple like two gardeners of same plot: w11 11/1 14
materialistic pursuits like strangler fig: w04 9/15 12
materialistic pursuits like working for counterfeit money: w17.07 11
meditating on Paradise like cleaning window having magnificent view: w06 10/1 28
meditation like carpenter’s activity: g 5/14 15
memories kept and discarded like photos: w23.11 12-13
mental permafrost: w93 8/15 15-16
mildness like a gentled horse: w23.09 15
modesty like little girl holding father’s hand in a storm: w03 8/15 22
money like a sharp knife: w10 11/15 5; yp2 155
money spending uncontrolled like driving blind: yp2 160-161
motivation like wind that moves sailboat: w23.05 27-29, 31
no disciple is made by one Christian as no plant is watered by one raindrop: w01 7/1 17
not handling differences like children: w00 8/15 24
not praying after sinning like lost pilot not contacting air traffic controllers: w06 9/1 30
obeying parents like paying debt to bank: g18.2 13
older Witnesses like natural diamonds: w21.09 2
one-parent family like rowboat with missing oarsman: yp2 210-211
overcoming obstacles to serving Jehovah like airplane taking off: w95 7/15 21-22, 24
painful correction like slaps in face to save hypothermic hiker: w15 4/15 31
parents compared to building contractor: w88 5/1 3-4
parents compared to pilot for ship captain: w04 10/15 20-24
parents raising children likened to archers shooting arrows: w13 8/15 17; w07 9/1 26, 30
passing over transgressions as if viewing them from an airplane: w99 10/15 15-16
persevering as does a musician: w23.09 21
personal differences like cracks in pavement: w08 11/15 17-18
personal study like selecting food at a buffet: w19.05 27
playing violent or immoral electronic games like playing with radioactive waste: yp2 249-250
poor spiritual feeding like malnutrition: w01 7/1 19-21
praising Jehovah as one would a talented friend: w05 6/15 24-25
prayer like a door: g 11/08 26-28
prayer like claiming gift at a store: w06 9/1 27-28
pride can harden heart like illness that hardens arteries: w22.01 10
prison like an X-ray: w22.06 23
publications like craftsman’s tools: km 7/15 3
putting on sweaters till not cold (praying till not scared): w95 10/1 18
questions or challenges are like icebergs: w23.09 16
races of mankind like bougainvillea flowers: w96 11/1 32
ransom like being rescued from drowning: w16.03 11
ransom like being rescued from mine: w08 3/1 3, 6-7
ransom like being rescued from sinking ship: cl 158, 161
ransom like benefactor relieving debt of victims of corrupt bank: w10 8/15 14
ransom like benefactor rescuing bankrupt factory: cl 143; w91 2/15 13
ransom like grandfather paying off son’s debt: rs 308
ransom like water for washing dirty hands: w16.05 19
rejecting evil things as by reflex: w08 3/15 24
respectful speech like mortar holding marriage together: g18.2 6
restoring mankind as one would a damaged house: w10 5/1 4-6
restoring relationships humbly as if going from mountaintop to valley: w96 9/15 23
resurrected ones on earth like immigrants with visas: w22.09 26
Satan’s challenge like a claim of being more honest: w14 1/1 9
Satan’s influence like carbon monoxide: w14 11/1 6
Satan’s organization like subversive criminal organization: w10 11/15 24-26
searching for deserving ones as for keys: w94 9/15 18
searching for prospective disciples as for lost child: w19.07 16-17; w07 11/15 25
seeking divine wisdom like searching for gold: w16.08 18-19
seeking skillful direction as from a helmsman: w12 6/15 30
selfishness like rust on iron: w14 3/15 8
serving Jehovah with whole soul, heart, strength, as a slave might: cl 105
setting priorities like filling bucket with rocks and sand: yp2 294
sexual bounds of marriage like walls of city: w11 10/15 17
sinful state like archer who misses: w06 6/1 12-13
sin like a computer virus: ct 156-157
sin like coiled snake: w13 3/15 16
sin like disease too expensive to cure: w99 2/15 13
sin like disease with cure: w10 3/15 11-12
sin like grit in an engine: g 8/12 20
sin like terminal pandemic: w09 9/15 26
sin passed on like dent in baking pan: w15 4/1 13; bhs 30-31; bh 29; hl section 9; la 24; pe 74
sin passed on like spot on photocopies: g 1/06 8
small acts that promote unity like stitches: w21.07 19
sorrow a part of repentance as an egg is part of a cake: w21.10 5
spirit (life force) like electricity: bh 210-211; w01 7/15 5
spirit of world like poisonous gases in a mine: w08 9/15 20-22
spirit of world like radiation poisoning: w97 10/1 25-26
spirit of world like river current: w16.01 31
spirit of world like wind carrying seeds: w06 4/1 9
spiritual defenses like immune system: w05 1/1 23
spiritual food like food chef prepares for himself: w16.10 15
spiritual growth like growth of a tree: w13 3/15 14-15
spiritual qualities like links in anchor chain: w12 2/1 30
spiritual routine like riding bicycle: w89 7/15 12
spiritual vision can blur like physical: w04 4/1 20-21
straying from Jehovah’s organization as into unsafe waters: w10 6/15 6
stripping off old personality like dirty clothes: w17.08 18
stripping off old personality the way a crab sheds its shell: g05 1/8 19
studying the Bible like examining a prospective house: w23.10 18
study without application like never seeding one’s garden: w05 4/15 27
subtle attacks like termites eating wood of house: w14 9/15 14
suggestive images like thin edge of wedge: w20.06 12
superior authorities hold society together as stitches do a wound: kl 133-134
talking to children only of warnings like seeing only warnings on restaurant menu: w14 9/15 18
teaching disciples as if a driving instructor: w20.11 3, 5-6; w04 7/1 15-16
temptations like snares on dark path: kp 26
things in world like lures of fisherman: w13 8/15 26-27
time management like putting rocks and sand in bucket: w10 11/15 16
tomb like a drawer that only Jehovah can open: g 8/09 32
training brothers like maintenance of car: w15 4/15 4
training brothers like teaching son to drive: w17.01 29-30
training children as if saplings: w96 12/1 10-15
training children like preparing, protecting, shooting arrows: w13 8/15 17; w08 4/1 13-16
training of heart and mind like soldier training drills: w14 9/15 15-16
trials like fire used to forge steel: w21.02 28
Trinity like twins, not father and son: w98 5/15 22-23
true worship identifiable like genuine money: bh 144-145
truth like a little flower: w18.11 5; w17.06 12; w96 5/15 15
using thinking ability as would sailors: w02 8/15 21-24
walking in Jehovah’s paths as if hikers: w02 7/1 28-30
Watchtower Study comments like bouquet: w10 10/15 22-23
wicked world like man on death row: w17.04 9-10
wicked world like uncharted wilderness: w11 12/15 14
wife like a Tiffany lotus lamp: w06 5/15 32
youths pursue goals as if finding the right bus: w18.04 25, 28
zeal weakened as if by replacing lightbulbs with dimmer ones: w12 4/15 16-17
experiences:
professor helped to see racial variety not bad: w89 11/1 15
finding illustrations: cf 121, 125-127; w22.01 13; w02 9/1 23-24; w91 9/15 29-30
Greek words: it-1 1174-1175; w99 3/15 19
“parable” not equivalent: it-1 1174-1175
Isaiah’s use: si 123
James’ use: w22.01 12-13; it-1 1184; si 249
Jehovah’s use: w94 9/15 27-28
Jesus’ use: cf 118-127; cl 213-214; it-1 1175-1178; it-2 70; w15 3/15 11; jy 106, 108-111; w14 5/1 14-15; w02 9/1 13-18; be 242-246; w94 10/1 6; w94 10/15 17; w94 11/1 15; sg 169; gt chapter 43; w90 10/1 18; sh 238; si 190-191; w87 3/15 8-9; w87 4/1 8; w87 4/15 8-9
Jude’s use: si 262-263
metaphors: cf 120-121; be 240-241
Paul’s use: it-1 1184; be 245
similes: be 240
use in field ministry: lmd 11; mwb21.05 5; th 11; w14 5/15 9-10; w05 12/1 29; be 253-254; w99 3/15 19-20; w91 1/15 19-20
Bible studies: w04 3/15 18
use in giving counsel: w86 9/15 16-17
associations: w86 9/15 17
inactive publisher: w86 9/15 18
use in reaching hearts: w91 9/15 28-30
use in teaching: cf 120-127; lmd 11; w22.01 12-13; th 11; km 4/12 1; jr 134; w02 9/1 22-24; be 53, 57, 240-246, 257; sg 52-53, 168-171
one’s children: w16.09 30-32
value: cf 118-120; w22.01 12; it-1 1175-1176
value of visual: w86 10/15 32
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