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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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326. The Seven Stages of the Married Cold

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Editor James S. Hewett

... over here. Now you go to bed like a good girl, just for Poppa." Third year: "Maybe you better lie down, honey. Nothing like a little rest when you feel lousy. I'll bring you something. Have we got any canned soup?" Fourth year: "Now look, dear, be sensible. After you've fed the kids and got the dishes done and the floor finished, you better lie down." Fifth year: "Why don't you take a couple of aspirin?" Sixth year: "I wish you'd just gargle or something instead of sitting around barking like a seal all ...

327. The Experts Have Spoken

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Editor James S. Hewett

Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell, U.S. Patent Office director, 1899) Who the h-- wants to hear actors talk? (H. M. Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures, c. 1927) Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. (Grover Cleveland, 1905) There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. (Robert Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics, 1923) Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, c. 1895) Ruth [Babe Ruth} made ...

328. Speaking with Prophetic Authority

Mark 1:21-28

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Richard Gribble

... not when it seemed to be acceptable or appropriate in the ears of the hearers or when he would receive a favorable hearing. Rather, often Jesus' message raised conflict; it shook people up. His message was challenging to the people's sensibilities; their zone of comfortableness was rocked severely. Some heeded Jesus' missive and became his followers. Others disregarded or were indifferent to the message and others still were violently opposed to what they heard and saw. Thus, they orchestrated his death ...

329. Nicodemus Came By Night

John 3:1-21

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David & Marian Plant

... make sense of, to question, and to put into perspective so we may believe, may still believe, may find new belief, may adjust our belief to more completely or truly resonate with God and God’s requirements of us. Jesus challenges our sensibilities: “You must be born from above.” Perplexed, we, like Nicodemus the man, respond “How can these things be?” Nicodemus moved from his familiar and trusted truths to the new reality he saw breaking in through Jesus’ teaching and actions. The same movement ...

330. Listening 101

John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

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David & Marian Plant

... is to serve men isn’t it? And Jesus, that socialist, nut-case liberal who thinks people should be forgiven rather than punished. Why do such religious people want to give away what is supposed to be earned, anyway? I could go on. Perhaps a more sensible “sermon” would include rewriting the gospel account in the sophomoric nonsense that serves as our discourse these days. We’d likely hear it in the tone it was heard. But you are here, listening to this, and however comforting my own lambasting of our ...

331. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... the disciples would come face-to-face with Jesus the Son of God, resurrected, and promising God’s power and presence to be with them to the end of the age. They would realize who he was, what this all meant, and yet it would confound their sensibilities, shake up their understanding of life, challenge their faith. Coming face-to-face with God may bring you to your knees in worship, but they were coming face-to-face with Jesus, their teacher, their rabboni, their hero to be sure, but a very different Jesus ...

332. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

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Lori Wagner

... cannot move themselves. He was thinking his brain was functioning, and he was breathing; and that, after all, is the quintessence of living. But none of these arguments had any effect. No matter what reason was brought to bear against his position, no matter how sensible the argument, the man maintained that he was dead. He parried their thrusts with ingenious skill. He seemed to have a way of constantly putting the burden of proof on the other. He never quite came right out and said, "Prove it." But that ...

333. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

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Lori Wagner

... led the church in the direction he deemed it should go, convinced that neither the pastor nor the rest of the congregation had as much sense in that regard as he had. The church followed his lead. He used all the pious language, sounded sensible, and was dependable to follow through. He was an outstanding citizen, and was convincing and passionate about the church and its community. He held a prominent job and gave abundantly to the poor. No wonder when he encouraged others to join him in his “righteous ...

334. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

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Lori Wagner

... , it might make for a “tensionless” environment, but you also may not see much creativity happening! Nothing much new! Nothing interesting to carry the relationship forward. Nothing to challenge the senses, or your thoughts, or your brain, or your sensibilities. Nothing to keep interest and passion and conversation …going. And where there is no challenge and no conversation between differing opinions, there is no creative tension. No interaction of opposites. As the Puritans used to say in the early ...

335. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

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Lori Wagner

... , and our rulers, we betray God’s great mercy and grace. God’s grace and mercy and love are free and without condition. I like to call this attitude of God’s “unreasonable mercy.” For God’s mercy to those even outside of the church defies our sensibilities. It insults our sense of worthiness. And it thwarts our attempts to control who gets “in” and who stays “out.” Let’s face it. We as human beings for most part like people best who are most like us. In the church, we want to invite ...

336. Worship, Doubt, and the Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

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R. Kevin Mohr

... this triumphant final scene after the resurrection when Jesus is saying goodbye to his disciples before ascending into heaven? When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. — Matthew 28:17 This doubt mixed in there with worship and the Trinity offends our sensibilities because we want things to be sure and certain, black and white. We want to get it right. That is especially true for someone like me, as a firstborn child, but we all probably suffer from the condition to some extent. We tend to ...

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Brit Hume

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

C. C. Colton

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Catharine Beecher

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Charles de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Montesquieu

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Daniel Bell

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Bronte

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Emily Post

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Francis Bacon

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

General William T. Sherman

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326. The Seven Stages of the Married Cold

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

327. The Experts Have Spoken

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

328. Speaking with Prophetic Authority

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Richard Gribble

329. Nicodemus Came By Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

330. Listening 101

John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

331. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

332. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

333. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

334. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

335. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

336. Worship, Doubt, and the Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Aristotle

Brit Hume

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

C. C. Colton

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Catharine Beecher

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Charles de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Montesquieu

Chauncey Wright

Daniel Bell

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Bronte

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Emily Post

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Francis Bacon

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

General William T. Sherman

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