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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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A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Homer

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

O. Hallesby

278. Too Big To Cry

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Max Lucado

In 1858 the Illinois legislature using an obscure statute sent Stephen A. Douglas to the U.S. Senate instead of Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln had won the popular vote. When a sympathetic friend asked Lincoln how he felt, he said, "Like the boy who stubbed his toe: I am too big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh."

279. What Really Matters

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... territory to find him. She searched bloody, scorched battlefields and crude hospitals until finally, two weeks after she left home, Lucy found her husband, injured but alive. When he campaigned for the presidency a few years later, Rutherford B. Hayes told sympathetic audiences of his loving wife who risked her own life “wandering over all Kingdom Come in search of her husband’s corpse—only to be surprised by finding him alive and kicking.” (3) In the same way, imagine God “wandering over ...

280. A New Identity for a New Year

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... a blank! If you’re not a parent, that sounds appalling. But if you are a parent, especially a parent who has taken your kids on a long road trip, then you probably have some sympathy for this poor man. But the border agents weren’t the sympathetic types. They took the father in for questioning. After 15 hours of investigating the dad and ruling out a possible kidnapping, the Canadian border patrol let him go. (1) Someone needs to come up with a term for the experience of laughing and cringing at the ...

281. Unto Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Mrs. Donna Raphael that I was surprised when the plane lurched forward down the runway for takeoff. Without warning, dear Gabriella started to shriek. I made out, though her piercing wail, something about ''We die!'' I looked across the aisle for pity and received a sympathetic glance from a young sailor whose eyes said, ''Thank God it's you and not me." After an eternity, Donna Raphael was about to calm Gabriella by stuffing a full sized Baby Ruth in her. Chocolate now ran down both sides of her mouth. ''I ...

282. Secret Sauce

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , is challenging for us. Relationships are challenging for us. Anyone want to dispute that one? And yet we continue to seek them, because we were ultimately designed to live in unity, in harmony, “with” one another. The paradox of humanity. We are both sympathetic and diabolical. Both tendencies live within us. How we live them out will determine the kind of communities we build. Why does Jesus put so much emphasis on love? Why does Paul keep emphasizing love, love, love? Because love is the sealant if ...

283. Therefore Go

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... II, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, created and distributed a secret pamphlet titled “The Simple Sabotage Field Manual” to citizens living in Germany, Italy and Japan. They hoped to reach those citizens who were sympathetic to the cause of defeating the Nazis and ending the war. The manual, which is available on the CIA’s website, offered instructions on how to sabotage productivity on the job in order to “reduce production in factories, offices, and transportation ...

284. Mary's Complaint

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , please. A young girl as “favored” as Mary might at least have been able to expect a degree of privacy after what she had gone through. After all, she had just given birth in a strange city, in abysmal surroundings, apparently without the help of a sympathetic mother or midwife, just the company of a husband who was probably more nervous than herself, and forced to use a feeding trough as a cradle for her new son. At least she might have counted on her “favored” status to guarantee her a bit of ...

285. A Portion of Thyself

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... ten-pound note from his wallet, and stuffed it into his hat. Then he pushed his way through the crowds and said, “I’m ten pounds sorry for this man! How sorry are you?!” In moments, he had turned the sickening curiosity of the people into sympathetic compassion. Are you aware? Will you share? Those are the questions of Jesus for us. Do You Care? Then comes the most important question of all. “Do you care?” Do you really care about others? Is compassion a way of life for you? Helmut Thielicke tells ...

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A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

Homer

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

O. Hallesby

278. Too Big To Cry

Illustration

Max Lucado

279. What Really Matters

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

280. A New Identity for a New Year

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan