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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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God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

Anonymous

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

Bernard Berenson

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Erich Fromm

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

H. G. Wells

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Richard Holloway

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Stendhal

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens

Govern my heart, that I may be willing and even eager to profit, lest the opportunity which thou now givest me be lost through my sluggishness. Be pleased at the same time to root out all vicious desires of seeking thee. Finally, let the only end at which I aim be so to qualify myself in early life, that when I grow up I may serve thee in whatever station thou mayest assign me.

John Calvin

But what does he (Paul) wish them to learn? That no one be puffed up for his own teacher against another, that is, that they be not lifted up with pride on account of their teachers, and do not abuse their names for the purpose of forming parties, and rending the Church asunder. Observe, too, that pride or haughtiness is the cause and commencement of all contentions, when everyone, assuming to himself more than he is entitled to do, is eager to have other in subjection to him.

John Calvin

The child who is eager to help around the house is usually too young to do it.

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1194. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

To know God’s heart – that is the goal of every disciple. To bear the heart of God in word and deed, that is the goal of every eager, mature, and serious follower of Jesus. It seems like it should be easy sometimes, doesn’t it, to be a Christian? We generally think of ourselves as “good Christians” if we attend church most weeks, engage in some community service, do some good deeds, hang around with other Christians, take ...

1195. Stay Awake!

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... seven or eight o’clock in the evening in the United States, it was one or two o’clock the following morning in London. That made for a very late — or early — bedtime. In the year when the Cubs were on the cusp of qualifying for the World Series, she eagerly tuned in to listen to the games that would decide who would qualify. But she’d been listening to every Cubs game that year, all broadcast in what was the middle of the night where she lived. After tuning in to the game that was to seal the Cubs ...

1196. Get Out of the Jungle!

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... dark swamp. But now we have an option. There’s a path into a bright future. There’s a jungle out there — and there’s also a light-filled, hopeful, healthy alternative. Let us get out of the jungle! Let us embrace the light, because the light is ready and eager to embrace us. When that happens, there will be a transformation — and our lives will never be the same again. Rejoice and be glad!

1197. A Sure Path to the NFL

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the science building, hoping to find his biophysics professor. This professor was a devout Christian, and he had always been willing to share his faith with Sam, even when Sam showed contempt for him. The professor was working late that night, but he was eager to listen to Sam’s experience and share his faith in Jesus with Sam. That night, Sam Yapa prayed to receive Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Sam says that he noticed God changing his heart and character right away. He stopped worrying about the ...

1198. All Are Invited, but…

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... led to the death of some and the destruction of their city, which Bible scholars feel is Matthew’s way of referring to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD at the hands of the Romans.[1] What was the king to do? He had a son who was eager to marry and a wedding reception where the salad was wilting and the meat was growing cold. He had to come up with a different strategy. “Go into the main streets,” said the king, “and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.” The slaves did as they were ...

1199. Proper Motivation

Humor

Several new members of the parachute club were in line to receive their parachutes. Standing nearby was an obvious senior citizen who was wearing the insignia of the club. Eager to be friendly, one of the new members asked, "What made you decide to become a jumper?" The old timer said, "A C-47 with two dead engines."

1200. Be Reconciled with the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... nations, then assuredly the Lord can and will extend the hand of forgiveness and reconciliation to us. Thus, as we begin this sacred time of Lent, let us listen to the message of Saint Paul and be reconciled to the Lord. There’s no need to wait, for Jesus is eagerly waiting with his arms outstretched on the cross for us to accept his loving embrace and forgiveness.

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1176 to 1200 of 1245 results

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

Anonymous

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Bernard Berenson

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Charles Sanders Peirce

Eleanor Roosevelt

Erich Fromm

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

H. G. Wells

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Richard Dawkins

Richard Holloway

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Stendhal

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens

John Calvin

The child who is eager to help around the house is usually too young to do it.

Traditional

1194. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19