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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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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Saint Teresa of Avila

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Samuel Johnson

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Thornton Wilder

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

260. A Sure Path to the NFL

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... basketball team. His basketball teammates were Olivia’s first babysitters. Wil reports that taking care of Olivia gave him strength. He was working to create a better life for her. By the time Wil Smith graduated from Bowdoin College, most of the students and faculty had witnessed the devoted love of this father for his daughter. So it was no surprise when Wil carried Olivia in his arms to cross the stage at graduation, or when the dean announced, “Wil and Olivia Smith” as graduating from the College ...

261. The Failing Student's Reasoning

Humor

A student, rushed into the office of his faculty advisor just after mid-terms: "I need help bad." The professor asked, "What's your trouble?" The student replied, "I just made four Fs and a D." "Well, what's your explanation for that?" asked the professor. The student replied, "I think I spent too much time on that one subject."

262. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

... report to the Board, he said, "At these small colleges, you often get a large number of students who tend to be dependent. They're not seeking maturity; they're looking for IN LOCO PARENTIS. They want to be Mama and Daddyed while they're here. Then you get faculty who want to play Mama and Daddy. I think the college ought to work harder to help them ‘grow up."' An old, worn out preacher spoke up. "Well, I guess it all depends on your definition of an adult. How do you define being "grown up"? "You know ...

263. Good Show

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... doing it for the benefit of a God who enjoys our prayers, our hymns, our trumpets and "loud clashing symbols" (Psalm 150). If God didn't seek and enjoy our praise, thanksgiving and petition, we wouldn't be here and this building could be subdivided into faculty offices. As Kierkegaard said, here is Sunday Morning theater in which God is the admiring audience and we--choir, preacher, musicians, congregation--are on stage doing our best to make it a show worth watching. But we're at a show in a twofold sense ...

264. The Dean's Dilemma

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... and stories along these lines almost always come with a moral: Be very careful what you wish for—you just might get it. It reminds me of the story I like to call “The Dean’s Dilemma.” An angel appears at a college faculty meeting and tells the dean, “In return for your unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward you with your choice of infinite wealth, infinite wisdom, or infinite beauty.” Without hesitating, the dean says, “Give me infinite wisdom!” “Done!” says the angel ...

265. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... seeing the treachery around him, the story of Herod whose desire to “look” good caused him to commit a vile and deadly act toward a man he actually trusted and admired. And there are many more. Our eyes can deceive us if we merely see with our own faculties. And yet when we see with the eyes of faith, with spiritual eyes, we “see” things we often didn’t even realize were there. Let’s do an experiment. How would you picture Jesus? When you think about Jesus, what does he look like to you? If you ...

266. The Wisdom of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Wisdom is an interesting word. Wisdom is a kind of combinatory faculty of the human mind which uses knowledge, experience, comprehension, common sense, insight, intuition, the senses, perception, compassion, and understanding of signs and oracles, mysteries and miracles to discern what is true about something or a situation. For the wise, knowledge is not limited to facts and figures but can comprise ...

267. A New Beginning

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... is going to make us to be. Not what is but what will be is what he loves. John Wesley nicely described what this new life in Christ looks like, how we live with our new beginning. He wrote: He [the Christian] has new life, new senses, new faculties, new affections, new appetites, new ideas and conceptions. His whole tenor of action and conversation is new, and he lives, as it were, in a new world. God, men, the whole creation, heaven, earth, and all therein appear in a new light and stand related to Him in ...

268. Valued Families

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

Will Willimon

... parenting. It's as if we presume that everyone who comes through here will be full-time lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, or doctors, and will neither marry nor bear children, never leave the office except briefly to attend basketball games. It's as if we faculty think that it takes brains to write term papers but any fool can bear children. Observation of many of our marriages and families should put that thought to rest. What is the goal of a university education? To what end are we moving? Power? Money ...

269. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 've got my office wall filled with papers to demonstrate that I am accredited , approved by the academy, the bishop, my peers, Rotary, Educational T.V. Covered on all sides! Can't happen here? Academic Freedom? Ask some non-tenured, junior faculty member, here or anywhere else, if the academic system feels like freedom? “As I look over the history of American intellectual life,' wrote Dwight MacDonald a few years ago, “I must conclude that American academic thought is characterized more by its consensus ...

270. A VIP Seat

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the table. Because he understood that the desire for status is rooted in fear. An American doctor who attended medical school in Switzerland wrote about the culture shock he and other American students experienced when they realized that the Swiss students and faculty believed in cooperation, not competition. All classes were pass or fail. There were “no grades, no awards, no Dean’s List, and no first or second place in the class at the school.” The American doctor wrote, “Some of us just couldn ...

271. Fear and Blessing

Psalm 128:1-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... this, they're going to think that we are terrible for letting this happen to our child." If I do right, my family will be right. What did I do wrong? I was speaking on another campus. At a social gathering, I met the son of a distinguished faculty couple. He was a pleasant, outgoing young man. Yet, later that evening, as his father took me back to my lodging, he said, “I don't know where we failed with Tom.” “Failed?” I asked. He seemed fine to me. “Here we are,” continued the father, “both of ...

272. God IS

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... can see it. We can touch it. The air on the other hand can only be felt. Unless it gathers in clouds, turns to ice, or heats to steam, we cannot see it. And yet we are certain it’s there. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be breathing. Our faculties tell us that it exists. And we believe it to be true. Even things we cannot see, such as wind, helium, oxygen, or natural gas, still conform to our very comfortable and comforting laws of physics. Science, our boundaries of space and time, although much about these is ...

273. Seeing is Believing…or Is It?

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and assured lives than those who find nothing solid to believe in. But now here’s another surprise: Doubt is not the opposite of faith. In fact, we all doubt. That’s why we need our eyes to see, our ears to hear, our fingers to touch. Our sensory faculties confirm what we believe. They assure us that what we know is “real” in the sense that it fits into our vision of what the world is like. Ever know someone who believes he or she is a bad person? Those inner feelings will color the way that person ...

274. House of God

1 Kings 8:22-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of worship. Speakers hailed this Chapel as a splendid symbol of faith. President B.R. Lacy of Union Seminary in Richmond was the first to speak at the Sunday afternoon service on June2nd. Dr. Lacy noted, "Other universities have great faculties and student bodies, well-equipped laboratories, and well-filled libraries…Duke has all of these, and in addition she is conscious of a definite and decided religious task…This is beautifully symbolized by the Chapel, the architectural center and the glorious ...

275. Jesus' Final Exam

Luke 20:19-40

Sermon

Will Willimon

... bad dreams after an evening of Mexican food? Exams--who needs them? I don't know what Freudians make of the alumni nightmares of exams, but I believe they are at least testimony to our residual bad memories of what it was like, as a student, to be under faculty assault. Exam time is a time to "show your stuff," to "lay it on the line." Can you pass the test? A couple of years ago I took an undergraduate course here in German, exam and all, and I can tell you students from personal experience that, although ...

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Saint Teresa of Avila

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Samuel Johnson

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Thornton Wilder

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

260. A Sure Path to the NFL

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

261. The Failing Student's Reasoning

Humor

262. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

263. Good Show