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Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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226. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Greek meaning can mean “mind” or “force” (almost as in Jedi jargon), but also utterance, intent, expression, and even a collecting or gathering together within the mind. It can mean mandate, prophecy, declaration, speech, story or narrative, mental faculties, and reason. The Hebrew meaning comes closest however to the “creative power” of God that allows God to come into “being” (YHWH) in order to reveal and communicate with humans. The Aramaic “memra” means for example a manifestation ...

227. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... comfort? What is so threatening to us? Is it the sensory pulses and emotional impluses that reverberate our soul in reading this poetry? Is that what makes us flee to the doctrines or the stories –the texts that we can contemplate with our minds, critique with our faculties of reason, claim with our moral countenance? Might it have something to do with intimacy? As long as we can hold the story at arm’s length, it is “safe.” It doesn’t really affect us too deeply. We listen to it. We nod. Then we ...

228. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ,” says Bruce Kasanoff.** The more we trust our intuition, the more reliable, and relational, and connected, our sense of knowledge. Intuition is relational knowledge. It’s the way we know our partners, our children, our friends, ourselves. And intuition is the primary faculty we use to recognize and connect to God. Today is All Saints Day. Happy All Saints! If there is one commonality that stands out among those disciples in our past who have had enormously life-changing experiences with or of God, it ...

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Anne Bronte

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Benjamin Franklin

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Colin Powell

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Florence Scovel Shinn

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frederic Bastiat

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Gertrude Atherton

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

H. C. Bailey

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Poincare

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Hugh Blair

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Michel de Montaigne

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Noah Webster

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Robert Henri

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Showing 226 to 250 of 283 results

226. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

227. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

228. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Anne Bronte

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Benjamin Franklin

Colin Powell

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Florence Scovel Shinn

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frederic Bastiat

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Gertrude Atherton

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

H. C. Bailey

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Poincare

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Hugh Blair

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Michel de Montaigne

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Noah Webster

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Robert Henri

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