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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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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Kahlil Gibran

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Martin Luther

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Tacitus

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Lord, deliver me from the lust of vindicating myself.

Augustine

608. Cross Choices

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... taking up the cross and following Jesus means giving up self for Jesus’ sake in order to find real life in him. Only the person who is dead to his or her own selfish will can follow Christ. To choose life through the death of self and our affections, lusts, desires, wants, and allegiances is never easy. Every day we will encounter new temptations, and every day we ask God’s Spirit to help us choose again to die to self and take up the cross. Again, the choice of the cross isn’t easy — it wasn’t ...

609. Proclaiming Death

1 Corinthians 11:26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ." A casual remark! A comment! Eight years ago. Me, telling this kid he was insensitive! My Lord! If I can do that to another person when I'm not trying, a student whom I would like to help, God only knows what I can do when I'm angry, resentful, lustful, or just ornery! I'm going to apologize and make it right? Call it a mistake and be absolved? No! Who could make restitution for all the pain he has caused -- known and unknown, intentional and not -- in this life? I' m always in the red so far as my ...

610. For Men Only?

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... it said...” and told those listening that while the law forbade murder, those who insulted their brothers and sisters were murdering the self-esteem and integrity of another human being, through their verbal abuse. He said that the law forbade adultery, but those who lusted in their heart were committing adultery as well. He said that the law told us to love our neighbors, and that even our enemies were our neighbors, and we were to love them too. Jesus goes back further than Deuteronomy, all the way to ...

611. For the Love of God Is . . .

1 John 5:3-4

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... This is the purpose for which man and woman and marriage were created, to bring passion and fulfillment and companionship to one another. But our human understanding of Eros became corrupted. We began to think of Eros only in terms of its negative, sinful side: lust. As a consequence, Eros never appears in the New Testament either in its noun or verb form. Eros is love shared between a husband and wife. D. PHILIA: Then we come to Philia. This Greek word describes brotherly or sisterly love. It describes the ...

612. We Fools

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a demanding deity. And the Christian faith reiterates that the problem is not that we desire but that we desire too little. Having no proper object for our desires, we breathlessly run toward everything. In our state of disordered desire, we transmute love into lust, achievement into acquisitiveness, and vocation into drudgery. Having no Creator tempts us to make our lives our creations, Unable to rest easy in God's good creation, to see our lives as God's good creation, we have much to do. (''I know what ...

613. Depart from Me

Luke 5:1-11 · Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... what they were alleged to be doing on Saturday nights in the dormitories! Yes. We began this service with confession of our sin. And any of us with even a shred of self-knowledge knows that we sin--our deceit, our egotism, our greed, our lust. (Preachers write many a sermon by turning, in our Book of Lists, to the entry ''SIN''--found, appropriately, right after ''SEX''--adultery, anger, aggression, avarice. Sin is all those little slip-ups and indiscretions that you do, that you know you shouldn't do. You ...

614. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... woman for the past eighteen years. Now, Satan has been evicted, the demon is gone, the woman stands upright, and the hypocrites are humiliated. Not bad for a day’s work. Political correctness aside, evil spirits can cripple any of us. There are spirits of greed, spirits of lust, and spirits of envy (just to name a few). In today’s story, we see a spirit of legalism at work. The enemies of Christ were too bound by the law to stand by and let God work on the sabbath. As Jesus reminded a different group of ...

615. The Sawdust Trail

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... look for things on earth, and Paul is very clear our focus must be heavenly. Paul goes on in Colossians to list those earthly things that we must surrender. Paul wrote: “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other.” We could discuss each item on Paul ...

616. Dying, We Live

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Sermon

Will Willimon

... no need to be hung up on death, anxiously managing or guarding our lives as if death were the worst that life could do to us. The worst that life can do to us is to render us unfaithful to Christ, to put our lust for control, our dishonesty about our true condition, our anxious desire for self-preservation before discipleship, to base our lives upon either our achievements or our delusions rather than upon his victory. ''Therefore, beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in ...

617. The Subject Is Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Steve Molin

... said that. I wonder what my debt would be for the sins that I have committed in my lifetime? What’s the price for the lies I’ve told? How do you put a value on the hatred I have carried in my heart? What’s my pride worth? My lust? My misplaced anger? With my lips and with my heart, I confess that I could never do enough to pay a debt like that. And so I tell God that I cannot pay. And God says, “I know.” And I ask if God could just …forgive me? And he does ...

618. The Case of the Stolen Inheritance

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , a wealthy owner dies. Arguments, squabbles, disrespect, greed, and finally murder reveal the depths to which the human soul is wedded to material things. Far from a simple story of “money corrupts,” Christie demonstrates how far we will go when driven by lust, greed, desire, and a competitive spirit. I won’t tell you the ending. You’ll have to read it. But you can read a similar story in Matthew in our scripture for today, as Jesus relays a horrifying story of selfishness, greed, corruption ...

619. The Lord Is With Us

Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... go away. Giver her back to me! We pray thus because, when the chips are down, it's the only way we can pray. Because we know that we are, for all our alleged nobility, creatures, vulnerable little creatures who suffer, and cry out, and laugh, and lust, and long for love. Christmas reminds us that no potter could form the most exquisite vessel without getting clay on his hands. No God could love us, love US, without stooping. Down through the ages, God learned that he must love us where we are -- or love ...

620. The Best Little Harlot's House in Jericho

Hebrews 11:31

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the red light district were the only ones spared when the invaders leveled Jericho. A harlot, a liar, what a seedy sort of saint. And yet, Rahab was not alone in her seediness. Drunken, naked Noah; Abraham with his squabbling family; old conniving Sarah; murderer Moses; lustful David; bigoted Paul -- a rogues' gallery. If people like them can be saints. Anybody can. Who is a “saint”? Israel is called a nation of saints: You are a people holy to the LORD your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a ...

621. You Can Talk the Game, but Can You Play the Game?

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of athletics. There are those of you who would judge me harshly for driving to Charlotte to sit in the cold at a Carolina Panthers game, accusing me of being there for the bruising and battering, or the unwholesome competition, or an all-too-American lust for blood. But I'm also there because it is wonderful (on those all-too-rare moments when the Panthers are actually doing well), when a gaggle of fellow human beings (rather large and beefy fellow human beings) get it all together, blend their individual ...

622. Eyes Like a Hawk

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to biblical times. Later similar phrases are attributed to Cicero, da Vinci, and William Shakespeare. But it’s truly Jewish thought that pays close attention to the way our eyes can deceive us, lure us away from God, or cause our hearts to lust after unhealthy inclinations. The opposite can also be true. Our hearts, if inclined toward criticism, judgmentalism, or mean-spirited emotions, can direct our eyes to pay attention to the most minute details about other people rather than focusing on God and our ...

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