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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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26. Dare To DV8

Romans 12:1-8

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... music. One day Antonio learned that a world-famous violinmaker named Niccolo Amati, son of Andrea Amati lived in Cremona. The next morning Antonio went to visit Amati and begged to serve as his apprentice. For many years he studied and worked. Antonio's knack for whittling grew into a skill of carving. And his hobby became his craft. Patiently he fashioned many violins, striving to make each one better and more beautiful than the one before. When Antonio died, he left over 1500 violins, each one bearing a ...

27. We Are Weak, But He Is Strong...

Romans 8:26-39

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... rejoicing all meld into one. Months of anticipation and then you get to hold that precious, God given bundle. And life will never be the same. But the process isn't finished. You don't just bring a baby home a place it on a shelf like some knack or prize piece of fine art. No, parents begin thinking about the future. What should they eat? When should you potty train? When will they sleep through the night? What day care, school and pediatrician should you use? Then later in life it's other things like, will ...

28. Simon

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... would have been different. And so it is always. You go down one turning rather than another, and your whole career is colored thereby. You miss a train (or plane) and you escape death. The most apparently insignificant things have a strange knack of suddenly developing unexpected consequences, and turning out to be, not small things at all, but great and decisive and fruitful.” (Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture p. 239) Register two facts precisely, facts that may result from coincidence, facts that ...

29. Unwanted Freedom

John 8:31-36

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Chris Ewing

... He was talking about slavery to sin, subjugation to anything that is less than God and apart from God — and it is a slavery we all fall into. As an example let's consider a woman Carter Shelley told about, a woman named Agnes.7 Agnes had a knack for church work. Had she been 25 instead of 72, she would have been a natural for the professional ministry. The Sunday school classes she taught were excellent. Her energies were limitless. She'd served on the church session, had been to General Assembly and was ...

30. Connected

John 15:1-8

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Christ means we don't have to face the uncertainty and cruelty of the world alone. We don't have to face the alienation of the world alone. B. A little girl had been trying for months to learn the art of tying her shoes. She final grasped the knack and was able to do it by herself. Her parents expected delight in the child but were surprised by her disappointment. Her father asked why she was crying. She sobbed, "I just learned how to tie my shoes." He said, "That's wonderful, honey. Why then are you crying ...

31. Don't Let It Grow

Illustration

... , and worrying them about heedless acts which leave no trace and have no consequences. Lying and in a lesser degree obstinacy are, in my opinion, the only faults whose birth and progress we should consistently oppose. They grow with a child's growth, and once the tongue has got the knack of lying, it is difficult to imagine how impossible it is to correct it.

32. God Can Turn Your Trash Cans into Treasure Chests

Psalm 51:1-19

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Leonard Sweet

... of how we get this coffee. Luwak is a cat. It is a Civet cat, a nocturnal creature that comes out only at night. It is about the size of a fox and is what you might call the Juan Valdez of the animal kingdom. This unusual cat has a knack for sniffing out the best coffee beans on any coffee plantation. It comes out at night and wanders all over the island of Sumatra and will only pick the most perfect coffee cherries to eat. It would rather starve than to feast on a Kona coffee bean, or a Blue ...

33. Financial Planning

Luke 12:13-21

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King Duncan

... , studied medicine, and afterward was a farmer. Later he engaged in the lumber business where he was quite successful. He was blessed with a wife, of whom Dr. Pearson has said, “She wanted me to make money to give it away.” Pearson had a great knack for making money. But he didn’t keep it. He used it to help young people who were struggling for an education. He provided endowments to forty?seven colleges, particularly in Appalachia. Here is how he described his life: “I have had more fun than any ...

34. How God Looks at Marriage

Mark 10:2-16

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King Duncan

... accumulate layer upon layer of shared memories. “We all begin our married lives by making a commitment to that when we repeat the vows ‘For better, for worse;’ and ‘till death us do part.’ “Do the couples who stay together possess a special knack for translating their commitment into a code of daily behavior that keeps it strong? “The first thing I discovered was that these couples, no matter what their ages, start out with what some might call an old-fashioned idea--for them, marriage is for ...

35. The Nazirite Vow

Numbers 6:1-21

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... dedication to God as did the Nazirites. A disciple who falls should not despair, but rather rise, repent, and recommit. Scripture: Perhaps the most poignant example of repentance in Scripture is the story of Peter. This courageous, sometimes loudmouthed fisherman had a knack for leaping first and looking later. He jumped out of a boat and began walking on water (Matt. 14:29). He suggested building tabernacles to camp out with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah (Matt. 17:4). And he promised never to betray Jesus ...

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.

Frank A. Vanderlip

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

Ruth Gordon

40. Living Bread

John 6:51-58

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Dean Feldmeyer

... Son of God the way people in New York look upon Alex Rodriguez, the way teenage girls look upon Taylor Swift or Miley Cyrus or Lady Gaga. They admire his talent and abilities — he could sure tell a story and he seemed to have a real knack for miracles. They appreciate his accomplishments — he was the founder of the biggest, most influential religion in the history of the world, after all. (Imagine what he could have done if he would have applied himself to business.) And they are blown away by the level ...

41. Treasures from the Past

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Mary Austin

... loved it, and handed it down. Rejecting the items feels like rejecting them. But our inheritance comes from more than antique tools and well-worn watches, from more than Thanksgiving platters and lace doilies. We also inherit the gifts of hard work, or principle, or a knack for listening to people. We receive a talent for making the perfect pie crust. We get a memory for sports statistics or the perfect barbeque recipe. We get a lesson in how to fix things, or how to understand people. We take on all these ...

42. The Great Reveal

Luke 2:22-40

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Lori Wagner

... she can tell what’s going on in your heart and head without you revealing it. How comforting (and sometimes disturbing) is that! I know many a parent who can “read” their children just as well, often to their kids’ dismay! Jesus would have that innate knack. He would be able to see into the hearts and minds of people and know them intimately, know their faults and their personalities, know if they had hardened hearts or a suffering spirit, know if they had faith in God and pure intentions or whether ...

43. Casters and Menders

Mark 1:14-20

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Lori Wagner

... ’t take any Tom, Dick, or Harry who wanted to sign on. He didn’t consult with Temple authorities about the best and brightest of the students hanging around the Temple. He didn’t even assign anyone a “personality test,” because Jesus had the crazy knack of being able to see directly into their hearts, minds, and spirits! Those he chose in fact defied pretty much everyone’s expectations, because he wasn’t looking for a set of “cookie cutter” disciples who would follow a set of rules and be ...

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