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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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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel L. Clemens

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Sara Teasdale

There is nothing so bitter, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Seneca

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

Stanislaw Lee

I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow.

The Kanteletar

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Thomas Fuller

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

William Penn

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

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

1766. How Do We Forgive?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... would you like to meet him?” Mrs. Washington, did, in fact, want to meet Ron Flowers—a person she had come to hate. Not long after her daughter’s murder, Mrs. Washington’s husband and son also died. Though a devout Christian, Mrs. Washington was clearly bitter and had written letters to the Texas parole board in an effort to ensure that Flowers would stay in prison as long as possible. Now she would actually have the opportunity to meet him and ask him the question she had been struggling with for ...

1767. Dancing in the Wind

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the boat, the wind subsides. Fear and the urge that we need to fight against the turbulent forces in our lives can leave us exhausted and depleted. At times, we either give up, drowning in our sorrows. Or we rail harder and harder, becoming angry and bitter. Only when we have faith in a power stronger than the weather, stronger than our obstacles, stronger than our worries, stronger than the wind, can we begin to relax and ride the waves of our lives like a surfer on the sea. In the Christian tradition ...

1768. The Stop-and-Think Chair

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... reward, actually destroys the health of the whole community. That is true everywhere, in every form of community. Sometimes the way of love is hard. That’s true. Gregory Jones says, “We need to acknowledge the intense pain, anger, and bitterness that exist for people who have suffered and continue to suffer the effects of sin and evil in our world. Cultivating a practice of reconciling forgiveness takes time, a creative reclamation of the understanding of sin and forgiveness.… Reconciling forgiveness ...

1769. How Could We Possibly Forget?

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... in today’s world who have found that serving others is the best way to show our thankfulness to God for the many blessings. When Scott Macauley was 24 years old, his parents were going through a divorce. His family was arguing and torn apart by bitterness. And Scott dreaded the thought of Thanksgiving. He wanted to share Thanksgiving with people who wouldn’t take the holiday for granted. So that year Scott put an ad in his local paper inviting anyone who might be alone on Thanksgiving Day to come to his ...

1770. Giving Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... her entire life.” Rose Kennedy said that she and her husband were devastated. Then the devastation turned to enormous anger toward God. “How could you have done this to us?” she asked the Lord. The anger eventually turned to a corrosive kind of bitterness that drained every bit of joy from her life. She hesitated attending social engagements, fearful that her anger about her daughter’s condition would spill out. “And that’s when it happened. A maid who worked for the family spoke to her. “Mrs ...

1771. You're Never Too Old

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... know what we can do about them.” (2) It is important for us as Christian people to see that Christian faith is not a static, passive, non-threatening style of life. Jesus was a doer. He was a person who was so outspoken that he aroused envy, bitterness and hatred. If he were a quiet, nice little person sitting in the corner doing no harm, he would never have been crucified. Somehow, though, the Christian faith is seen by many people as a style of life in which we are quiet, submissive people who never ...

1772. Be Reconciled with the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

Two brothers who lived on adjoining farms developed a bitter dispute. It was their first serious rift in forty years of farming side-by-side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as necessary. They had never had a quarrel until now. It began with a small misunderstanding but eventually mushroomed into a major difference, and finally exploded into a ...

1773. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... father and two teenage brothers died in tragic plane crash. Colbert credits his mother’s faith and resilience with helping him cope with his grief. He says his mother’s example of coping with her own grief kept him from giving in to bitterness. But for many years, Colbert turned his back on his faith. After graduating college, he considered himself an atheist. But one day, while walking down the street in Chicago, Illinois, a stranger handed Colbert a small book containing the New Testament and Psalms ...

1774. Go!

Acts 9:10-19

Sermon

Will Willimon

... one to the great heroic missionary of the gentiles, the one we know as St. Paul? Or was it little Ananias? Ananias, who, on the basis of nothing but this voice and this vision risked his life, went to the street ca11ed Straight, addressed this once bitter enemy by the term, "Brother," touched him, laid hands upon his head, and was thus the agent of one of the most dramatic transformations in all of scripture? When we are converted to Christ, we are not simply converted into loving Christ, but, in loving ...

1775. Homecoming

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 5,000!" Love tends toward excess, prodigality, abundance. That's why I respect grief that's excessive. From what I've observed, the prodigal, screaming, flailing grievers get done with their grief the fastest. When Jesus heard that his friend Lazarus had died, Jesus wept bitterly and the crowd seeing Jesus grieve was right to say, "See how he loved him!" Great grief often accompanies a great loss. The poor, uptight, do-right, older brother in the story was such a miser. When he got word of the huge party ...

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