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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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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Robert Falcon Scott

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.

Romans

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Saint Basil

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Victor Hugo

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Will Durant

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

1508. Pumpkin Savior

Illustration

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Let me give you a little Thanksgiving trivia quiz: Which fruit is responsible for preventing the Pilgrims from starving during their first winter in America? The answer is the pumpkin. The words of a Pilgrim song highlight the Pilgrims' appreciation for the pumpkin's aid in staving off hunger: We have pumpkin at morning, and pumpkin at noon. If it were not for pumpkin, we would be undone. Those early immigrants to this land did not have it easy.

1509. God Sees You

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... challenged. So imagine the curious and confused looks when Jesus starts to speak: “Blessed are the poor in spirit……for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” “Blessed are the meek…..for they will inherit the earth.” “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness…..for they will be filled.” “Blessed are the merciful ….for they will receive mercy.” “Blessed are the pure in heart….for they will see God.” “Blessed are the peacemakers….for they will be called children ...

1510. A Message To You from God

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was and never gave up on healing him. (6) John writes, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” The eternal Creator God put on our human flesh, with its squishy, itchy, weak and annoying imperfections and walked in our shoes. He experienced hunger and thirst and frustration and weakness and loneliness and overwhelming pain and loss. And He did it all so He could show us that we don’t have to go searching for an unknowable God. God came looking for us. When we look at Jesus, we see ...

1511. A Costly Cross

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... were only loosely bound to the cross. Then the cross was lifted and set upright in its socket. “The terror of crucifixion was this,” writes Barclay, “The pain of that cross was terrible but it was not enough to kill, and the victim was left to die of hunger and thirst beneath the blazing noontide sun and frosts of the night. Many a criminal was known to have hung for a week upon his cross until he died raving mad.” (3) It was a terrible way to die. And, without being ghoulish about it, we need at ...

1512. Now

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

... you are reassured. But you will shortly leave this place, go back to the office, back to exams, back to Pegram, the O.R., the kitchen sink, and prayer may not come as easily as here. The presence will not be as sure as in this blessed bread and wine. Hunger for God, temporarily assuaged in Chapel, will rise again and your Monday prayer will be, "Thou hast hid thy face from us." Jesus warned us. "It will be like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work ...

1513. More

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Will Willimon

... and we can breathe. So we go forth after church. There are the same quarrels in the car on the way home, same tensions over the dinner table, same blue Monday. Now, however, we are aware of a new world, new hope, new possibility, new dreams, new hunger for something else, in short, we are aware of more. We see how greatly reduced, how tamed has been our truth. We, who have tasted new wine, now thirst for more. The Prince of Darkness whispers "adjust, adapt". The Prince wants to keep the world closed, for ...

1514. Homecoming

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... wretch! As youngest son, he had no claim to anything of his father's. Surprise, his father takes his "whole living," all his life, and gives it to the boy who promptly slips into the "far country" where he wasted every cent on booze and bad women. Eventually, in great hunger and want, the boy said to himself, "I die here, when I've got a home and a father whose servants live better than I. I will go home." And when he was "a long way off," the father saw him and ran and embraced him. The father, who must ...

1515. Not Gullible; But Skeptical

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... within our very nature that senses an incompleteness. We see through the glass darkly, but somehow we sense that the room into which we are seeking to peer is not empty. This world is far too wonderful to have occurred by chance. There is within us a hunger that only a relationship with the Divine can satisfy. It is actually very difficult for most of us NOT to eventually move beyond our doubts. The evidence for God is simply too strong. Some of us see Him everywhere we look. But there is a final thing ...

1516. Victorious, Victims

Luke 6:20-36

Sermon

Will Willimon

"Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh." Imagine a sermon which begins, "Blessed are you poor. Blessed are you that hunger. Oh how lucky are you who weep. How fortunate are those of you whom people hate, exclude, revile. Leap for joy those of you who have cancer. How lucky are you unemployed. How blessed are those going through marital crises." The congregation does a double-take. What? Blessed? Lucky? Those ...

1517. Mary's Song

Luke 1:46-47, 52

Sermon

Will Willimon

... lost the ability to sing. Voiceless, rendered speechless. A missionary once told me that, when a child is starving, when a child is that utterly emaciated and near death, that child no longer cries. Tears dry up and the child is silent. The hunger is so deep it has moved beyond pain, beyond feeling, to utter, empty, silence. If you are hurt often enough, deep enough, disappointed, defeated, pushed down enough, before long you become withdrawn, quiet, silent. The government is proud to report that Soweto is ...

1518. Our Need and God's Provision

John 6:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... for today, I want you to picture it through the eyes of Jesus’ disciples. They had traveled to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee hoping to get away for some rest. But crowds of people, thousands of people, followed them to this remote area. They were hungering for a miracle or a message of hope. The tired disciples hoped Jesus would send them away. The situation of these tired disciples reminds me of a study that the U.S. Army did a few years ago to determine the factors that contributed to the maximum ...

1519. What Do You Expect?

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... be beginning. Why do we continue to believe the secret to life can be found in accumulating great wealth? Because money can give us a sense of control. Because we can use it to keep score—to prove that we are somebody. That’s why we continue to hunger for wealth or fame or power. But many of those who have obtained great wealth or fame or power know them to be empty and unfulfilling. Every wise person who has ever lived knows what is missing in life—and it is not material possessions or recognition or ...

1520. How to Beat a Stress Test

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the other prisoners. When they were released in 1945, a prison guard who was impressed by their courage shouted as they passed through the exit, “These are the ones who for six long years refused to worship Japanese gods. They fought against severe torture, hunger, and cold, and have won out without bowing their heads to the idol worship of Japan. Today they are the champions of the faith!” (6) Where did this young Korean school teacher get the strength, courage and confidence to withstand arrest and ...

1521. Meeting Jesus

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... that John brings to us in this story. Behold, the light of the world who casts out darkness, who answers our questions and embraces our doubts and offers us growth, health, and fruitful living; Behold, the bread of life, the living bread who feeds our spiritual hungers and for which we will never be hungry again; Behold the gate through which every soul can walk who seeks to know the living God; Behold the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep; Behold the way, the truth, the life that is ...

1522. Never on Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... only the priests could lawfully eat? Before we go on, let’s be honest. Mark had just massacred the story that was recounted in 1 Samuel 21. The parallels between David and Jesus were, pretty much, nonexistent. In the David story there was no mention of hunger, he didn’t have any companions with him, he did not enter the house of God, and the high priest is Ahimelech, not Abiathar, and neither David nor his companions actually ate the sacred bread. Mark had rewritten the story to make a Christian point ...

1523. Metaphors Be with You

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... that this new kind of bread sounds pretty good. Give us some of this bread of life, they say. Where is it? And Jesus responds,” It is I! I am the bread that comes from heaven (like the manna did) and who comes to me shall never hunger or thirst anymore.” That’s verse 35 which the lectionary gives us as an introduction to today’s reading. It’s a metaphor! Unfortunately there were some John Davises in the audience that day. The author calls them “the Jews” but he obviously doesn’t mean every ...

1524. A Commitment to Righteousness

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... a vest of righteousness, to pay the price with his blood, that he might protect us with the shield that sin could never penetrate.” *Charles Swindoll, The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1998, pp. 496-497). Each believer is instructed to hunger and thirst for righteousness by Jesus himself. Righteousness is transformed into right living through the word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. Repentance: a part of righteousness (Luke 3:8). The people of John’s day were in need of ...

1525. Seeking Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... talk about enjoying church, and Michelle discovered that some of her new friends at work were also Christians. A strange yearning started growing in her. What was so exciting about church? She tried hard to avoid the subject. But she was starting to sense a hunger, an ache, a need that nothing else could fill. One Sunday morning, Michelle picked a random church out of the phone book, woke up Johnny and Cameron, and they all headed off for church. She was surprised to find that she enjoyed the message, and ...

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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 1501 to 1525 of 1570 results

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Robert Falcon Scott

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.

Romans

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Saint Basil

Victor Hugo

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Will Durant

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

William Wycherley

1508. Pumpkin Savior

Illustration

Staff

1509. God Sees You

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner