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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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Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.

Will Durant

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Woodrow Wilson

489. The Bereaved Mother

Illustration

Staff

Once during Queen Victoria's reign, she heard that the wife of a common laborer had lost her baby. Having experienced deep sorrow herself, she felt moved to express her sympathy. So she called on the bereaved woman one day and spent some time with her. After she left, the neighbors asked what the queen had said. "Nothing," replied the grieving mother. "She simply put her hands on mine, and we silently wept together." Most times, when people are grieving, we ...

490. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... Don’t you wonder why Jesus never tells us who will provide the source of that comfort? That’s because it can be different for each of us. For some, the comfort may come in the form of a plate of chocolate chip cookies; for others it comes as a sympathy note in the mail. For others it takes the form of a friend who sits with you and holds your hand as you make your way through that dark night of the soul. For others, the comfort may come through scripture, prayer, or that peace of God that surpasses all ...

491. A Secretary's Disposition

Humor

As someone has said, a secretary should have the following qualifications: "A diplomat's tact, a mule's endurance, a chameleon's effacement, a salesman's enthusiasm, the sun's punctuality, the speed of light, a sister's loyalty, a rhino's hide, an Einsteinian brain, a mother's sympathy, and the patience of Job.

492. A Nice Size Family

Humor

Two men began to talk about world problems, high taxes, the cost of living, and finally, their families. "I have three boys," one of them said proudly. "That's a nice family," sighed the other man. "I wish to heaven I had three children." "Don't you have any children?" the proud father asked with a touch of sympathy in his voice. "Oh, yes," sighed the second man, "I have six."

493. One-Way Ticket to Alcatraz

Humor

A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco's Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz. Others watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another. The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail. Finally they reached the ticket window. "Five tickets, please," the father said. "Two round trip, three one way."

494. Justice

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a servant even $1 million. That would be a very generous king, very generous indeed. But this king has lavished $150 million on just this one servant. What became of all that money? What kind of life would you have to live to blow $150 million? Don't waste your sympathy on this guy. He blew $150 million. He has nothing to pay back? Nothing? A wife, a couple of kids, a stint in jail, it really isn't so much when compared to $150 million. You can't blame the king for being angry. If we were talking only say ...

495. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s coming . . . Glinda’s coming . . .” (1) Can you imagine being in those poor actors’ shoes having to act excited as they waited . . . and waited . . . and waited for Glinda to arrive? If you can imagine such a scenario, then maybe you can have a little sympathy for the prophet Jeremiah as he tried to point the nation of Israel to the coming of their Messiah. Israel was hurting. Israel needed a Savior. That Savior was coming. But they couldn’t wait. They needed hope now. In the last days of his ...

496. Mary's Witness

Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)

Sermon

King Duncan

... -old child: The child said, “I wish I could see Santa’s naughty kid list.” Mom replied, “To see if you’re on it?” The 7-year-old responded, “To see who I could have the most fun with.” (2) I think we all feel some sympathy for that mom. More proof of this theory that kids’ priorities at Christmas are different than parents’ priorities can be seen in kids’ letters to Santa Claus. Here a few examples of recent letters to Santa taken from the Internet: Dear Santa Claus, When you come to ...

497. A New Identity for a New Year

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... the man the names of his five children. And the dad drew 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 ...

498. Christ’s Call to Discipleship

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... . They were surprised and amazed with his incredible authoritative preaching. His sermons were rich in wisdom, grace, and direct simplicity aimed at their level of understanding. His illustrative material caught their attention because it came from where they lived daily. Love, sympathy, and concern pour freely as the wine from the large open containers at the wedding of Cana. His truth was like a sharp two-edged sword that cut deep into their hearts and soul. Certainly that caught the attention of the ...

499. A Caring Woman

Acts 9:36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... in front of him. It always thrills me when young people find creative ways to live out their compassion. We’re told that during the recent COVID-19 lockdown awhile back, reports of domestic violence rose all over the world. Most of us feel great sympathy for victims of domestic violence, but few of us take direct action to improve their situation. However, a Polish high school student named Krystyna used her skills and resources to get help for people in dangerous home situations. She set up a fake online ...

500. Ordinary Sin

Luke 22:28-34, 54-60

Sermon

Will Willimon

... finds a much richer depiction of what it means to be a person: [The story] takes place entirely among everyday men and women of the common people; anything of the sort could be thought in antique terms only. As the most serious and most significant sympathy? Because it portrays something which neither the poets nor the historian of antiquity set out to portray: the birth of a spiritual movement in the depths of the common people. All this applies not only to Peter's denial but also to every other occurrence ...

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Showing 476 to 500 of 513 results

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Paul Harris

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.

Will Durant

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Woodrow Wilson

489. The Bereaved Mother

Illustration

Staff

490. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12