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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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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Noel Coward

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Petrarch

As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

409. Gifts That Keep Giving

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Charles Swindoll

Some gifts you can give this Christmas are beyond monetary value: Mend a quarrel, dismiss suspicion, tell someone, "I love you." Give something away anonymously. Forgive someone who has treated you wrong. Turn away wrath with a soft answer. Visit someone in a nursing home. Apologize if you were wrong. Be especially kind to someone with whom you work. Give as God gave to you in Christ, without obligation, or announcement, or reservation, or hypocrisy.

410. Get Out of the Jungle!

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... . Jesus, as the gospel writer describes him, declares, “I have come that you may have life — in all its abundance” (John 10:10). It needs to be recognized that viewing other people with openness, trust, and compassion — rather than with suspicion and fear — is counterintuitive. There’s nothing normal about it. Nobody would automatically choose to view the world that way. The reason is clear. Our primitive brain is powerful. It tends to override our more benevolent instincts. Given that reality ...

411. Oh, That You Would Come Down?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the stage and says, “I’m going to see to it when God serves His sentence that He knows what it’s like to be obscure and to be poor. He will be borne on the backside of nowhere with a peasant girl for His mother. There will be a suspicion of shame about his birth, and He will have to live as a Jew in a Jew‑hating world.” The second archangel adds to that harsh penalty: “I’m going to see to it when God serves his sentence that He knows what it’s like to fail and to ...

412. The Maidens In The Shadows

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Staff

... in the light with the ten wise maidens or out in the dark with the ten foolish maidens?" I am not certain the bishop was able to finish his message. For those who stand in the shadows there is the grudging obeisance to religion, but there is also that nagging suspicion that we would rather be out in the dark with the ten foolish maidens.

413. To Whom Do You Belong?

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... who reads or hears the story of Jesus’ baptism cannot help but ask a question about why he submitted to this practice. By the end of the first century, when the gospel of John, the last one written, had begun to circulate, there was among believers the suspicion or the outright belief that Jesus was in fact divine. And, if that were the case, why did baptism make sense in his case? There is more than one way to address this concern. Matthew, Luke, and John all suggest there was divinity in the person of ...

414. Why the Greatest?

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... the staples of situation comedy is the difficult neighbor. The next-door neighbor might be nosy, or rude, constantly borrowing and never returning, on the make, a gossip, even an outright thief. In TV and movies one looks to neighbors moving in with alarm, or at least suspicion? Who knows what they will bring? We laugh at the situation in a comedy, but it’s no so funny when we live this reality! Is this why most people limit this passage to one third of a verse: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself ...

415. The Richest Family in Church

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Adoniram Judson spent 38 years ministering to the people of Burma, the area now known as Myanmar. He and his wife, Ann, spent six years in ministry to the Burmese people before they had their first convert. At one point Judson was thrown into prison on suspicion of being a spy. While in prison, his wife Ann died. After his release from prison, he contracted a debilitating disease that dogged him for the rest of his life. And yet this man, who suffered so much in his life, is famous for his unwavering ...

416. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... acceptance. Jesus’ interactions with others were remarkably open. He noticed people whom others overlooked. He touched people who were judged untouchable. He had no walls of acceptability around him. And this openness caused the local religious leaders to view him with suspicion and contempt. Even today, we struggle to just accept and love people as they are. Even today, that kind of love is radical. In 1989, Mother Teresa visited Phoenix, Arizona, to open a homeless shelter. There was a huge celebration ...

417. A Protestant (And Catholic) Way To Confess

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... kin in hearts and minds. We come to trust each other. (I also am more likely to forget about myself, as I come to focus more on the content of my confession and on these who share that confession.) The result: social solidarity! The walls of suspicion start tumbling down when you share a common faith, or at least when your neighbor has the same job as someone with whom you share a common faith and trust. The other-directed dimensions of confession promote more activity in the front part of our brains (the ...

418. Death Shall Be No More

John 13:31-35 · Revelation 21:1-6

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... coercion, the ways of hurt and wounding, the ways of manipulation and greed. Love, you see, is the apocalyptic button we need to push. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth…” This is a heaven and earth where people meet one another without suspicion or anger. A place where competition and hard-hearted individualism gives way to a community of compassion and justice. Let us live into a new Jerusalem. Let us live together into a kind of love that will become our identity. Let us step into the world ...

419. Peter Asks A Question

John 13:1-7 · 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... became one loaf, so may your church be brought together from the ends of the earth into your kingdom." God calls us through communion into one human family which ignores the boundaries of race and economics. Our meal together celebrates our release from the captivity of suspicion and fear, of alienation and loneliness, and our entrance into the covenant of Grace. We are a family because God found us. So when we celebrate the meal it is good to enjoy it as well. Then, finally, there is the Bread and Cup. It ...

420. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... the congregation. “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the sabbath” (Luke 13:14). So in essence, he generally laid the entire congregation low — and in particular, the woman with the eighteen-year demon. I have a sneaking suspicion that the leader of this synagogue was a bit skeptical to begin with. He was probably looking for some slip-up on Jesus’ part so he could jump in and save the day. He was the leader there, and he didn’t want some stranger horning in ...

421. The Dishonest Manager

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... to be drawn according to the teller of the story is that “the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. ”First of all, note that the landowner himself might not be above suspicion. His manager was only charged with financial misconduct. It does not say in the story that the landowner made a complete investigation to see whether or not the “charge” was true. We only have the landowner’s reply which in effect said, “He sure pulled ...

422. A Little Bit of Honey

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of these little ones in the name of a disciple, none will lose their reward.” Do not underestimate acts of kindness. Sadly, today, we live in an increasingly divisive world, full of anger, resentments, pointed fingers, and impatient glances. We eye people with suspicion and treat those who are different like insects to be crushed. Our minds have been closed by fears and doubts, cynicism, and sarcasm. We have forgotten the source and creator of all that exists and flourishes in our world. The more we close ...

423. Ready!

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , “revelation.” The style of writing wants to convey a message of hope in “code” that would not be understandable to those who are outsiders. That way the author would hope to get his or her message across without arousing the suspicion or anger of the hostile authorities. Apocalyptic literature normally smacks of a strong and stark contrast— simply put, good versus evil. It relies on lots of symbols — numbers, colors, animals — “codes” that only the faithful would understand. It regards ...

424. Ambassadors For Christ

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

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John B. Jamison

... a reunion. He had heard how the church had grown; both in numbers and in its influence in the city, and was eager to celebrate that success with his church family. But something had changed. Instead of arriving to enjoy a reunion, he was met with suspicion and accusation. Instead of being welcomed as the one who helped establish the church in Corinth, he was received as someone who was not to be trusted, someone who had presented a false version of the faith, someone who was not to be believed, someone who ...

425. The Body Of Christ, On Repeat

Luke 24:36b-48

Sermon

Mary Austin

... , but to go out and share what they knew. The body of Christ, looking outside itself. The body of Christ resists locked doors. Like those disciples, we, too, lock ourselves away. We close up part of our lives, forget to take chances, see people with suspicion, and think nothing better is possible. We close off places inside us or lock away our future plans. If we can just seal things up tightly enough, maybe we can fend off any future disasters and more grief, plus any other big pain. As a congregation ...

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