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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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My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a banknote, for two twenties.

Douglas William Jerrold

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

Karl Popper

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Nicolas Malebranche

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Robert Burns

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Robertson Davies

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

T. H. Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Thomas Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

W. H. Auden

1342. Oh, That You Would Come Down?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... would therefore speak God’s language—Hebrew. That was a naïve expectation, of course, but it is true that the Jews had this very special relationship with God. They thought of themselves as God’s chosen people. How is it possible, however, to reconcile the notion “We are God’s chosen people,” with the reality of six million Jews slain under Hitler alone? We can appreciate the difficult dilemma faced by the devout Jew as he or she wrestles with what it means to be a descendant of Abraham in the ...

1343. Beyond Fairness

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Roy Howard

... reminded us it is by grace that we are made whole, and it is not in our works that we earn our status before a loving God (Ephesians 2). In a mostly workaholic culture, one might think that his is the greatest news of all even though it overturns the notion that all the best things in life come to us by hard work. The greatest thing in our life actually comes as a gift from God, not as a reward for our work. That is an occasion for joy! But before we wrap up that package, we should note that ...

1344. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... respect until Eddie Murphy played one in Shrek. Jesus was riding a colt of a donkey, a symbol of humility—not a horse, a symbol of conquest. Jesus approached Jerusalem in peace as a humble servant and not a mighty warrior king. The people were so preoccupied with the notion of political and economic power that they were blind to what was taking place before them. God was at work, but not in a way that they could comprehend. That’s a reminder to us—God is still at work even when we can’t see Him. In ...

1345. Choices

Philippians 1:12-14, 19-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... you, Take Charge! Be your own person! Choose! Decide! Sometimes you parents criticize us here at the University because of what we do to your children. You say that you send them to us all right, but then we mess them up, fill their heads with strange ideas, notions, make them want to do things they didn't want to do back in River City. But this is called education. What greater American virtue can there be than freedom of choice? That's what we're doing here, giving them choices. Isn't that what it means ...

1346. Heaven

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... all those who have been silenced by the pain of life, shall sing, and their song shall not end. Thus last year, Tony Campolo defined Christian evangelism as "recruitment for a choir. Read the Book of Revelation." Who shall be there? I confess that "universalism," the notion that, in the end, all shall be somehow, some way united with God, makes sense. It makes sense because I am amazed that I feel, even here, at least some degree united with God, despite my life. More than that, it is difficult for me to ...

1347. Having the Right Connection

John 15:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... with my favorite college football team! If they’re winning, I’m on top of the world! I’m a winner too! And every psychologist and sociologist who studies social media says that social media is having a tremendous impact on people’s notions of identity today. Social media encourages us to link our identity with our appearance and the image we project. Not character, not intellect, not substance, but image. There is a social media influencer who has about 300,000 followers on her various social ...

1348. Hail, King!

Jeremiah 23:5-6 · Psalm 93 · Revelation 1:4b-8 · John 18:33-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a king could do. I mean a real king, not a polo playing playboy who dabbles in architecture, but real royalty who was crowned the old fashioned way --by divine right rather than by the media. I realize that I've got an uphill battle. The notion of royalty doesn't come naturally to Americans. We were born out of the idea that a modem nation doesn't need kings and queens. We believe that democracy is a better way than a monarchy. The democratic supposition is that wisdom is somehow quantitatively rather ...

1349. Meeting Jesus

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... ask Jesus? Had he heard something about Jesus and the message Jesus was teaching and wanted to see for himself? Or did he see in Jesus a kindred spirit, someone who seemed to think like he thought? His opening lines to Jesus would tend to give credence to this notion. He seems to think that Jesus has it all together, too. He may think that Jesus is Pharisee material and has come to offer him a sponsorship if he wants to join the club. “Rabbi,” he says, “we know that you are a teacher who has come from ...

1350. The Good

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... lectionary. And therein lies my Parents'-Weekend, Twenty-fourth-Sunday-after Pentecost embarrassment. Today's gospel lesson is not a parent approved text -- Jesus' story of the Pharisee and the Publican. [Read Luke 18:9-14] First, let's get out of the way any notion that this Pharisee and Publican story is an example of the virtue of humility. As Robert Capon says, it's not a parable about the virtue of humility but a story about religious futility. It is not exhortation to adopt a humble religious stance ...

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My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a banknote, for two twenties.

Douglas William Jerrold

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

Karl Popper

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

Nicolas Malebranche

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Robert Burns

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Robertson Davies

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal

T. H. Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Thomas Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

W. H. Auden

1342. Oh, That You Would Come Down?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

1343. Beyond Fairness

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Roy Howard

1344. No Promotion Required