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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Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... rule of pistols for two and coffee for one has gone from among us as barbarian. But among nations? It's taken for granted. Forgiveness between neighbors is counted as a virtue by most of us Christians. But forgiveness among nations? That's gross and foolhardy sentimentality, that's losing face. Superstitions! SUPERSTITIONS! Pagan and primitive and childish! We can't get away with it. The self can't be divided. It never stays divided. We drift one way or the other. The doom of the Syrians comes upon us. I'm ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... have to deal with. There are the frank and open heathen, whose notions of Christianity are a dreadful jumble of rags and tags of Bible anecdote and clotted, mythological nonsense. There are the ignorant Christians, who combine a mild, gentle-Jesus sentimentality with a vaguely humanistic ethic. And, finally, there are the more or less instructed churchgoers, who know all of the arguments about divorce and auricular confession and communion but are about as well equipped to do battle on fundamentals against ...
Drama
William McKee Aber
... : I believe my ancestors had something to do with that! Christian: But you weren’t completely successful; even you have to admit that! Judge: Gentlemen, please do not interrupt me! The point is, now man seems a mixture of love and hate and no sentimental evasion of this problem can be tolerated. The scene you see happens every morning ... witness it, use your respective insights, and speak to what happens here; are we agreed? (both nod in agreement) Sue: Jack - JACK! You’d better hurry up if you want ...
Sermon
Ewart E. Turner
... Giver." Barnes had sunk into his chair once more. He caught the luminous eyes of the faithful Ajax. Was that a mute appeal in the eyes of his dog? Gathering himself together, the rich farmer, shook his fist at Godson. "Do you know my answer to all this sentimentality?" He arose and began pacing the cupola floor. "I’m going to live it up. I’m going to eat, drink, and be merry." "You fool," Godson said softly. Barnes advanced on Godson. He propelled him forcibly to the head of the stairs and was about to ...
255. Why Christmas?
Isaiah 8:11-22
Sermon
Theodore L. Yewey
... is quite another state of mind that takes over. Every person and every part of life takes on new perspective and new meaning. Persons who for most of the year have lived by something less than their best impulses and have tended to repress their best sentiments suddenly give way to the highest and the best within them. Those who have lived very closed and selfish lives are often seen to undergo a very dramatic change in the light of Christmas. Generosity and giving become the watch words of the season. Or ...
256. The Forgotten
Matthew 1:18-25
Sermon
Theodore L. Yewey
Christmas is a very special time at our house. It is a time when we try to do many things together as a family. One of the traditional rituals we all share in is the decorating of the various rooms with things that have special sentimental significance for us all. Over the years we have accumulated a number of unique scenes of the Nativity. We generally try to have several of these displayed in various places to remind us not only of the beautiful story of the birth of Jesus, but also to call our attention ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... away. To move out and away from the group without causing any awkward disturbance. Judas’ mind drifted to that meeting so few hours before when he had used his friends to make contact with the authorities. If the leader knew of this, and was using this sentimental bit of the foot washing to change his mind - well, it wouldn’t work. He had committed himself to his own salvation from the death this man seemed determined to bring not only on himself but on them all. Nothing would turn him back. His thought ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... t know what they are doing." Glancing up at the man, the centurion seemed to be seeing clearly for the first time the dreadful deed in which he had participated. A chill went through him and he turned away. It was his job. He could not afford to be maudlin, sentimental. He stared full into the face of the crowd, some smirking, some weeping, and he thought what a miserable thing it was to be a human being. Time passed slowly, and the sky darkened until it was as deep as the black of a moonless night. The dry ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... to stop retreating from the world with our tail between our legs, and turn around and lead, we are going to have to get smart. We are going to have to get a "thinking man's" religion again, to love God with our minds as well as our emotions and sentiments. To be sure, true religion has to do with the heart, with the feelings and emotions, with, as Pascal said, the reasons of the heart, which the mind (that is, the cold, rational mind) knows not of. To be sure, religion has to do with the soul, the will, the ...
260. A Thimble Full Of Ocean
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
Sermon
Larry Powell
... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1:9). Let us note the confidence expressed in the words "all forgive," and "all unrighteousness." There is no stuttering, no hesitation, no sentimental pinings here. An unreserved affirmation of an all-forgiving God is laid down for all who stand in need of forgiveness. And that brings us down to cases, doesn’t it, "For all have sinned and fallen short." Let us now take up some unfinished ...
Sermon
Richard L. Eslinger
... a long time now. K-Mart has been playing Christmas carol music for weeks, and the blue light moved to the Christmas ornament aisle after it had been converted from the Halloween display. For months now, it seems that our culture has been pouring sentimental Christmas syrup over us. Now we know [tonight, today] that all that stuff wasn’t really Christmas - some ad agency’s version, maybe; but it wasn’t Christmas - because there was no waiting. In the K-Mart version there’s no expectation, no Advent ...
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... , is now on the government’s blacklist, has been fired from his teaching position at the University of Berlin. Friends of the courageous churchman have arranged for him to take a congregation in London, England, at least until the present anti-religious sentiment blows over in Germany. Bonhoeffer was heard to remark, as he departed Berlin for London, that he expects things to get worse for Christians in Germany, not better, and that he has mixed feelings about leaving at such a critical time. Nevertheless ...
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... is the fact that several prominent members of the congregation, who are also employees of EIC, were known to have voted on either side of the issue. According to William Childs, also a member, but not an EIC employee, this represents a significant swing of sentiment back to the dismissed pastor. BILL CHILDS: Well, looks like we’re going to lose EIC from Center Point after all. I thought sure they were just bluffing. EVIE CHILDS: I guessed they weren’t when they started laying off employees. Well, as far ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... support peace. The Pope did not believe a preemptive strike against Iraq met the church criteria for a just war. Methodist Bishops have spoken out against the war. Baptist and Episcopals have also. Christians around the world marched with others against war. All these sentiments were expressed 10 years ago in the first Gulf War. But if America and her allies had not liberated Kuwait and sent Saddam Hussein scurrying back to Baghdad, I wonder what the Middle East would be like today? My purpose today is to ...
Sermon
Richard Patt
... church is remodeled." While she never said it aloud, I imagined that she was probably asking this question inside of herself, "My church, my church, my dear old church: what’s happened to my dear old church?" While we can understand how anyone might be sentimentally stirred by a number of things that change in their lives, it seems as though in today’s Bible story Jesus is talking about something deeper than that. He’s pushing the Pharisees here - and us as well - to ascertain again just where it is ...
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... ; it is a life situation which must be overcome, something to be worked through." He frequently went to high schools and colleges to talk with students who had good vision, concerning what it meant to be without eyesight. He was forthright; there was no sentimentality, no self-pity; he harbored no resentment, never asking "Why has God done this to me?" There was no bitterness toward those who had good vision. A fellow seminarian of mine was blind. His comment was that blind people are, first of all, people ...
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... gift of two copper coins - perutas, the smallest of Jewish coinage, having the value of two cents, or less - will be remembered for all time. What is it about this familiar scene? It tugs the heart. Are we sorry for the woman? Oh, some like to dwell on sentimentality and attempt to paint the picture in maudlin lavender, but such is a glaring mistake. No! We are not sorry for the woman because of her poverty, and we are not sorry for the woman. She gave all that she possessed, and it was done in sacrificial ...
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Warren Thomas Smith
... guns began to sound. Had the shooting started she would have been taken home in a casket. Can a Christian live in any other way than that of peacemaker? The godly life, by its very nature, seeks to be one of reconciliation. This is not maudlin sentimentality. More than one peacemaker has died in the attempt to bring warring factions into right relationships. Yes, and those who seek God in all things will suffer for it. Strange, is it not? The godly life will probably result in being the object of someone ...
269. The Word of the Cross
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... the year. But during Lent, and especially on Good Friday, we try to keep silent and let the cross speak its word to us. We are not commissioned to trim and hew the cross to suit our desires, much less to approach it with maudlin sentimentality, weeping with the daughters of Jerusalem over the innocent Sufferer. Nor are we allowed to be mere spectators of Jesus’ suffering and death. When the cross speaks, it reveals our own involvement both in its tragedy and its victory. It brings us under God’s ...
270. Easter People
Colossians 3:1-17
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... that when the life process comes to an end we are really dead. The voyage of life has ended in nothingness. The Christian faith shares this grim realism as far as it goes. It does not deny the reality of death. It gives no support to sentimental dreaming about a "beautiful isle of somewhere." It does not engage in wishful speculation about the immortality of the soul. It admits that there is nothing in man which can withstand the destructive fury of death. Were we left to our own resources, the last word ...
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... the churches in America have developed the practice of observing Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Children’s Day. The most recent trend is to combine all three into a Festival of the Christian Home. Without indulging in the kind of shallow sentimentality which has too often been associated with these celebrations, especially Mother’s Day, it is certainly appropriate for the church to call attention at least once a year to the importance of the Christian home. It is in keeping both with the word ...
272. True Freedom
John 8:31-41
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... festival, but in 1976, the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it has a special significance. If our celebration of it is to be something more than a commercialized carnival, if the festival spirit is to be something better than chauvinistic sentimentalism, we do well to re-examine the meaning of freedom in the light of the word of God. True freedom, according to Jesus, is not merely a matter of national heritage. "If you continue in my word," he says, "you will know the truth ...
Sermon
John W. Wurster
... we will not.” “Yes,” I replied, “but do we really want to highlight the human capacity for faithlessness at your wedding? Wouldn’t it be better for me just to say something sweet about love?” “This is about love,” he replied. “Not sweet, sappy sentimentality. But real, heart-breaking, heart-mending love. God will not give up on those people, although it seems they have given up on God. God just refuses to let those people go.” I could see where this argument was going. I wasn’t going ...
274. With All Your Heart
Joel 2:12-17, Joel 2:1-11
Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... all your heart.” The prophet exhorts a return to God “with all your heart.” The heart was believed to possess the same power and influence over the souls and wills of people as the brain is believed today. The heart was the seat of sentiment and intellect, will and determination. If the people return to God with all their hearts, then their return will at once be final and complete. They had simulated return in previous generations according to the Covenants but not with all their hearts. God wants ...
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Brett Blair
... says “familiarity breeds contempt" but I will say that our familiarity with the story has made us lose its reality and its drama. We have taken the story of the Christ child, held it before us, and said: “Oh, isn’t it beautiful.” We coddled and sentimentalized the story. When we read the story we are too often projected into a world that was more rosier than ours, where miracles were still possible and God was more active and hope made more sense and evil was stoppable and reality wasn’t quite so ...
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