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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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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Eric Hoffer

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Eva Peron

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Of the 7 deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

Frederick Buechner

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, and being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

107. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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King Duncan

... favor, doctor,” the patient might complain. Whereupon, borrowing from scripture, the wise old doctor would reply: “Seek and you will find.” Six weeks later, more often than not, the patient would return with quite a new outlook, freed of a sense of grievance against life, and convinced that people had suddenly become more kind and friendly. (4) Science is confirming what sensitive souls like A. J. Cronin have known for a long time—the many benefits of an attitude of gratitude. Several years ago, two ...

108. The Power of Weakness

Mark 8:27-38 · Psalm 19

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Thomas C. Willadsen

... is this power and strength that sets us free from ourselves and binds us to the perfect freedom of service to Christ. Amen. 1. Fred B. Craddock, John Hayes & Carl Holladay, Preaching Through the Christian Year: Year B (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993), 147. 2. Grant Keizer, “Grief and Grievance: The Tyranny of the Dead” in *Christian Century* vol. 120, no. 10 (May 2003), 7.

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Eric Hoffer

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Eva Peron

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Frederick Buechner

George Bernard Shaw

107. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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King Duncan

108. The Power of Weakness

Mark 8:27-38 · Psalm 19

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Thomas C. Willadsen

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