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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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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Samuel Johnson

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Samuel Prout

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Thomas De Quincey

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

632. One Feisty Woman

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Roy Howard

... the gospel story by ignoring Christ’s humanity and dismissing the life-changing power of faith that dares to take risks for the sake of those who suffer. All attempts to domesticate the gospel so that it conforms to our expectations render it a sentimental tale with little power to influence our lives or change the world. The same can be said about all attempts to domesticate Jesus. Instead, I suggest accepting the story as it is, with its rough, rude edges, listening carefully for what Jesus revealed ...

633. The Stop-and-Think Chair

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... not a commodity; it is the investment of the entirety of our lives. Perhaps the first thing the contemporary church — across the traditions — needs to do is confess to God our failures to be genuinely a confessing church, to sustain communities of reconciling forgiveness.”1 Sentimentality is easy and many people follow that path. Love is hard. But it’s also true that Jesus — the living Christ — promises to be with us every step of the way. That is the good news. At the Lord’s table we see the ...

634. What Are We Protecting?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Roy Howard

... of land given to us by the landowner. What precisely is it that the followers of Jesus have been asked to tend that belongs to another who has charged us with stewardship? This question moves us away from interpretations that merely perpetrate anti-Jewish sentiments toward one that forces us to consider our management of what has been entrusted to us and our treatment of those who claim to recover what belongs to God alone. Perhaps those of us in the church consider ourselves to be entrusted with the ...

635. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... must be crucified . . . but after three days he would rise. Mark tells us that they did not understand what he was talking about, “but they were afraid to ask him.” Gentle Jesus, meek and mild—how could anybody ever be afraid of Jesus? We have so sentimentalized this man from Nazareth that we cannot even imagine grown men being afraid in his presence, but they were. And why not? If he is who we say he is, who could help being fearful in his presence? Here was absolute purity—absolute love. Have you ...

636. The Redemptive Side of Suffering

Hebrews 5:5-10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... if any, of us will ever be called upon to give our lives as martyrs as did Bonhoeffer, but if we are not suffering to some extent, especially these days by standing up for what we believe against the tide of secularism and in many ways anti-Christian sentiment, then we may need to rethink what we do, for we are not living the Christian vocation to its fullest. Bonhoeffer wrote, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Let us, as Jesus says in the gospel numerous times, die at least somewhat ...

637. Advice

Romans 12:2, 9-20; 13:8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, there is the scene where old Polonius, an aging, sentimental blowhard, gives advice to his son, Laertes. Laertes is preparing to leave for France and old Polonius, knowing what sometimes happens to eighteen year olds in Paris, does what fathers do -- he offers advice. Most of his advice is rather innocuous. In those days, before dreaded social diseases, there wasn' ...

638. Patience

Matthew 11:2-11 · James 5:7-10

Sermon

Will Willimon

... once characterized our preparation for Christmas have been obliterated in a yearly stampede to generate Christmas cheer before the end of November so that, by the end of December, we are sick of Christmas, engorged as we are of Yuletide jingles and seasonal sentiment. Congregations impatiently endure the singing of Advent hymns on Sunday, just dying to get on with the business of Christmas. "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute," that's the song we want to sing, not "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel ...

639. Here

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... grace and truth; we have beheld his glory" (John 1:14). See? None of those messy details about Quirinius' enrollment. No Mary. No Joseph. No detours through dusty, conflict ridden backwater Bethlehem on our way up to the rarefied reaches of yuletide sentiment. We love to drink religion in the form of clear, distilled liquor, from which the gross particularities of history and geography have been distilled. We thrill to the enunciation of universal, timeless truth, relevant to humanity in every age. And yet ...

640. Bringing Life to a Party

Luke 24:36b-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... is evidently returning from a funeral. The mother says to the children in the back seat: “Well, yes—we’ll see Granddad someday when we go to heaven.” With that, the smallest child in the family says, “Could I just wait in the car?” I can understand that sentiment. None of us wants to die. But that’s life. No one gets to wait in the car. We will all die. Thankfully, that’s not our final destiny. We were created for life, not death. God did not bring us into being for this world only. Christ ...

641. Meet the Rose Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... was. Putting the word “arguably” in there just weakens the sentence and makes you seem like a coward who wants to hedge his bets. It’s like saying that Wells may or may not have been one of the greatest movie directors of all time. What a wishy-washy sentiment. Take a stand. Give the man credit. Say that he was or say that he wasn’t. Pick a position and stand by it. Another overused word is hero. Newscasters and writers as well as the general public use this word way too much, I think. It has almost ...

642. The Song of Servanthood

Luke 1:39-45 (46-54)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... The Bible infers that God had first place in Mary’s life. The song of glory came from deep within her soul and spirit and rose to her lips as she gave glory to the redeemer of life! Giving God glory is far more than a sentimental expression of feeling. It is the absolute knowledge that we glorify God for his redemptive act in our lives. God’s redemptive process comes through the whole Christ event. First, it was from the beginning that this plan of salvation originated. John wrote in his first epistle ...

643. Preparing for the King

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Jesus. We do repent of our sins. We do try to live righteous lives. But we know that we do not have the power within ourselves to live as we ought to live. So we throw ourselves on God’s mercy. That doesn’t sound like a Christmas-y sentiment, does it? Because guilty people need mercy. Broken people need mercy. Unworthy people need mercy. And that’s what we are. You and me. But we have a God who loves us and is willing to meet us right where we are. That’s why He sent His Son, Jesus ...

644. It's A Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... loved to hunt and fish, a strong self-made man." This man told him, "I love you and I love this church, but I'm not going to participate in this Forty Days of Love stuff. It's OK for some folks," he said, "but it's a little too sentimental and syrupy for me." A week went by. The next Sunday this man waited after church to see Dr. Moore again. He told him, "I want to apologize for what I said last Sunday about the Forty Days of Love. I realized on Wednesday that I was wrong." Dr. Moore ...

645. Faith and Freedom

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ostracism. He gave both the woman with the hemorrhage and Jairus' family the freedom of new life. CONCLUSION: An artist was visiting a dear friend. When he arrived, she was weeping. He asked why. She showed him a handkerchief of exquisite beauty that had great sentimental value, which had been ruined by a drop of indelible ink. The artist asked her to let him have the handkerchief, which he returned to her by mail several days later. When she opened the package she could hardly believe her eyes. The artist ...

646. It's a Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

647. What Are You Bananas About?

Philippians 3:17-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... the bulldog’s jowly face was the caption, “Get a bulldog grip on your faith.” (2) The pastor was obviously a sports nut. Paul might not agree with the idea of hanging a picture of a dog behind the pulpit, but he would certainly agree with the sentiment: “Get a bulldog grip on your faith.” That’s exactly what he’s telling the Philippian believers to do. The same advice he gave the church at Philippi is still relevant for us today. There are three tools Paul gives us for standing firm in our ...

648. Beware! Angels

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of angels at this time of year suggests that they function ''as a kind of Santa Claus for grownups." Has celebrating Christmas as a shopping orgy with no religious significance left secular folk feeling empty? Perhaps angels fill that void, becoming a sentimental substitute for real, deep, abiding faith in the Christ. We like angels because, unlike the babe at Bethlehem, we can make them mean fairly much anything we want. 'To move angels center stage is to trivialize Christianity," Cunningham says. A look ...

649. Revolutionary Rules For Living

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... breaks the forces of evil and sin in our lives! How does his revolutionary thought coincide with ours? What should we do with his concepts? Revolutionary principle number 1: Love your enemies (Luke 6:27a). Ouch! Love my enemies? This is not the emotional sentimental love that the world sometimes describes in a Hallmark movie. Reuben Welch described this as a love that is the active, unlimited spirit of goodwill in the face of opposition and wrong. It genuinely cares for others and wants the best for them ...

650. Unto Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 's, when you think about it, when you really think about it, in context, that's an odd, frightening, wondrous idea of good news. And dwelt among us. Notes: Odd, if one reads today's Christmas gospel carefully, that we should be so guilty of sentimentalizing Christmas. It is almost as if Matthew bends over backwards to paint the birth of Jesus in realistic, utterly mundane, and somber colors. It was an embarrassment, this birth, causing the worlds of poor Mary and Joseph to be turned upside down. He came to ...

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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Samuel Johnson

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Samuel Prout

Thomas De Quincey

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

632. One Feisty Woman

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Roy Howard

633. The Stop-and-Think Chair

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

634. What Are We Protecting?