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Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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351. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

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Lori Wagner

... our lives around rock-solid securities and safety-first structures. Why if they can’t sustain our peace and safety. What if the dinosaurs and dragons get loose? What if our soul and security is not in our weapons, not even in our will? We need security. We crave it. We thrive on it. We can’t grow as a child without it. One of the biggest inhibitors to change is our desperate need for lock-downs in life, security systems that hold fast. But as a disciple of Jesus, commitment and security go hand in hand ...

352. Slow Burn

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 6:19-24

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Lori Wagner

... with light. Jesus notes that only God is eternal. Only God’s fire cannot be extinguished. “Where your treasure is, there is your heart.” Is your heart filled with the fiery light of God? Or in other words, “Be careful what you love!” What you crave with your eyes, you love with your heart. In Jewish folk culture, “ayin hara” is the evil eye. People believed that the malicious gaze could bring about evil. In midrash, the evil eye cannot bear to see the good fortune of others. It is selfish and ...

353. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

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Lori Wagner

... God from within…..due to greed/a preoccupation with wealth or other temptations) Metaphor of Dry Branches (those which are not nurtured from being in relationship with God) Metaphor of the King (whatever rules you…to what/whom you pledge your loyalty, attention, cravings, urges, soul Crown of Thistles (the sin upon the head of the Son) Metaphor of Silver and the Treasury of the Heart Metaphor of Wineskins and Drunkenness (which distracts from God) Metaphor of the Kiss (the honor due to the Son and the ...

354. House of God

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

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Lori Wagner

... and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you ...

355. Sweet Salvation

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 25:1-12

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Lori Wagner

... are just downright chocoholics? Human beings, with the exception of only a few, seem naturally to be drawn to sweets. We associate sweetness with pleasure, joy, even ecstasy, and we associate sweet treats with rewards and the ability to eat the luxuries we crave. In Jesus’ time, you couldn’t go down to the grocery store to buy a cart full of chocolate, ice cream, or good ‘n plenty. The “sweets” of the first century were primarily honey, spice, and fruits and the juices of those fruits, pressed ...

356. Clear to Enter

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, Matthew 28:1-10, Luke 24:1-12, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 10:19-39, Genesis 3:1-24

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Lori Wagner

... God. How you cultivate that relationship, the attention you pay to it, the time you give to it will be reflected in the way your heart is revealed when the gate is opened. Jesus has come to heal your parched roots, to water your shriveling spirit, to prune back your cravings, to nourish your soul. Let Him in. He is the Gate. He is the Way. He is the Key to eternal life. The stone is rolled away. The Gate has been opened. You are invited. Come, and enter in.

357. Big Spender

1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32

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Lori Wagner

... ” is a prosperity of the spirit. “I will give you rest,” says Jesus –rest for the soul. Jesus brings us the kind of rest that means, we feel satisfied in our lives, that we feel happy in our relationships, that we don’t constantly feel the need to crave for more and more and more, that we don’t feel lost in our identity, but we know exactly who and whose we are. In Christ, we are whole and content people. That doesn’t mean, we don’t engage fully in our lives, engage in healthy competition ...

358. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

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Lori Wagner

... you be subject to God when you can be on the same level as God, enjoying the freedom that God has? The Jewish people call this “poisonous voice” lashon hara, the “evil inclination,” the curse of the tongue. It’s a voice that prompts cravings for reward without investment, the awakening of expectant and entitled appetites, and a deceitful self-image –a dissatisfaction with one’s place within the created world. We have a similar story in our armory of fairy tales. So many of our fairy tales and ...

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Anais Nin

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

D. H. Lawrence

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

D. H. Lawrence

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Emma Goldman

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

Erich Kastner

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

Henry J. Golding

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

John Ensign

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Maclver

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 351 to 375 of 399 results

351. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

352. Slow Burn

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

353. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

354. House of God

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

Sermon

Lori Wagner

355. Sweet Salvation

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

356. Clear to Enter

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, Matthew 28:1-10, Luke 24:1-12, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 10:19-39, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

357. Big Spender

1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

358. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Anais Nin

Arthur Conan Doyle

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

D. H. Lawrence

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Emma Goldman

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

Erich Kastner

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

Henry J. Golding

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

John Buchan

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

John Ensign

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Maclver

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda

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