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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

Jacques Barzun

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

John Keats

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Lord Byron

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Paul Cezanne

185. Soli Deo Gloria

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Ron Love

Carol Klein, with schoolbooks under one arm and a sheet of music under the other, got off the express train from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The year was 1957 and the 15-year-old was determined to be a singing sensation. Wearing bobby socks, white sneakers, and a black skirt with a pink poodle embroidered on it, she opened the New York City telephone book. Starting with the “As” in the directory, she visited every music industry executive until she found one who would record her songs. After being turned ...

186. Jesus Matters

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... claim to King David — and Jesus is his direct descendant.” It probably didn’t convince Jews, but it may have impressed the first Christians. The second argument Luke makes is this: Jesus’ father was God the Almighty, not some human being. This sounds sensational to us, but it may not have for the first Christians. The same claim was made for many great men in antiquity. Emperor Augustus Caesar was believed to have had a divine father. So was Alexander the Great. Often these stories arose after a ...

187. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... one’s neighbor has to come before everything else or the Law has no purpose. If we love the Law more than we love God or our neighbor, then we will miss the spirit of the law altogether. Recently there was a man from Ireland who became an Internet sensation for a silly mistake he made while on vacation. This gentleman was visiting Las Vegas for the first time. If you’ve ever been a tourist in Las Vegas, then you know how colorful and bright “sin city” is. He wanted to capture all the lights and the ...

188. The Judge of the Living and the Dead

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... fly. He created some wings, went to the foothills of the Bavarian Alps where upcurrents of wind are common, and strapped the wings to his back. In the presence of some reliable witnesses, he jumped off a high hill and soared safely downward. Sensational! Babblinger could fly. Not long after, King Ludwig and his royal court came to town and the local leaders wanted to impress him. “Get Hans Babblinger to fly for the king,” they said. Everybody thought it was a grand idea. Unfortunately, the demonstration ...

189. We Would Like to See Jesus

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... (which is spoken in Iran), there is a word that means “to practice holding sadness.” It conveys the idea of just carrying sadness all the time, like a burden you can’t put down. And there’s a Russian word that refers to “. . . a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause.” (5) It may take us a lifetime to pronounce any of these words in the original language, but we can instantly relate to their meaning. Something is missing in our lives. And there is nothing we ...

190. The Clues Are There

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... can’t begin to eat all the food that’s set before him. The rich becomes poor. The poor becomes rich. Reversal! Jesus went about, according to Luke, teaching and preaching reversal. To poor, hungry, marginalized people (like the Bethlehem shepherds, by the way) reversal was sensationally good news. “We won’t always be poor. The rich won’t always be lording it over us.” Since we know that is a key theme in Luke, we can now make sense of Simeon’s words in the Jerusalem Temple, to Jesus’ parents ...

191. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

Sermon

Will Willimon

... small, finite, mortal -- namely, naked and afraid. You will be sitting in your den, dressed smartly in Calvin Klein, a large house surrounding you, a martini in your band, but you will be naked. Your heart will skip a beat, there will be this strange sensation in your chest and you can smell mortality. Then you will see yourself located, not in some restricted Garden of Eden called "Westmont Estates", but in a weedy place where you are at enmity with the world, with other people, with life itself. And if ...

192. A Deserted Place

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... than Jesus. From the beginning of his ministry crowds surrounded him everywhere he went. His disciples thought it was great and they really couldn't understand why Jesus didn't share their enthusiasm. According to worldly standards Jesus was a huge success, an overnight sensation, a smash hit. If it had been today, His picture would have been on the cover of Rolling Stone, Time, People and a dozen other magazines. He would have been a popular seminar leader and convention speaker. Jesus was one busy man. He ...

193. Mountaintop Moments

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... better. Why? We evaluate our lives by our last and most memorable and powerful experience. When your most powerful experience is revival, you aren’t likely or easily to forget it. That doesn’t mean that our entire lives need to be made up of sensational experiences. Many people live well with a quiet and steady faith. But for those whose lives have felt like a challenge for survival, Jesus’ gift of salvation has come as a truly powerful and life-changing gift. Why do many AA meetings feel more faith ...

194. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... are told about Mr. Rockefeller because he has two hundred million dollars -- so many believe them; yet how false is the representation of that man to the world. How little we can tell what is true nowadays when newspapers try to sell their papers entirely on some sensation! The way they lie about the rich men is something terrible, and I do not know that there is anything to illustrate this better than what the newspapers now say about the city of Philadelphia. A young man came to me the other day and said ...

195. Persistence And Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... knowledge of what the spirituals are about, but also “feel” what this black music is trying to convey. Janet has that sense of “feeling” that many of the rest of us seemingly do not have. It is essential that we capture the sensation of what the slaves really meant and felt when they wrote the spirituals. Jewish Holocaust — Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was certainly one who suffered immensely. He knew what it was to be persistent, just like the African-American slaves enduring their bondage ...

196. Stop in the Name of Love

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... , in 1909. Wurmbrand was a wealthy businessman and a playboy. He spent his time when he wasn’t working going to local bars and cabaret shows. He says of his lifestyle back then, “I did not care what happened as long as my appetite for fresh sensation was fed.” He also didn’t care how many women he lied to or cheated on, including his wife. But then Wurmbrand contracted tuberculosis and was confined in the hospital for a long recuperation. During this lonely and scary time, he began to read the Bible ...

197. Be More Than You Are

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... on bended knee and in the agony of hunger.” Then they blessed each ailing Indian -- and saw that the sick recovered. “To our amazement the ailing said they were well. We were more than we thought we were! To be more than I thought I was -- a sensation utterly new to me.” Isn’t that an exciting thought? Does it cause a shiver of excitement in you -- to be more than we are, to reach the unreachable -- break through the barrier of estrangement -- discover the key to life that has been hidden. It’s ...

198. That Mountaintop Moment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... infinity –this enormous universe behind it.” Astronaut Edgar Mitchell added: “There was a startling recognition that the nature of the universe was not as I had been taught…I not only saw the connectedness. I felt it…I was overwhelmed with the sensation of physically and mentally extending out into the cosmos.” Likewise, William Shatner when given the opportunity to view the earth from space, told the world that the trip had reinforced his connection to Earth and his view of the “power of our ...

199. The Christian Mother

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... them, and he was proud of his masculine achievement. When he returned to school, however, he discovered that he had lost his touch. He was afraid he would not be able to do his delicate work again. After a while, though, the tough skin wore away and the sensation returned to his hands. What he learned was that you can toughen yourself to the point where you don't feel pain, but you lose the sensitivity that makes it possible to help. (1) You and I need sensitivity to the needs of those around us. That's ...

200. Soul Hunger

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and fulfillment that lasts! They want a “quick fix.” He wants to help them change their lives from the inside out. They are the “paparazzi” of Jesus’ followers –the restless “hungry ghosts,” religious opportunists, forever seeking the next sensational “sign,” “wonder,” or “free meal.” They are so engaged with physical things that they don’t recognize the deep and relentless “soul hunger” they harbor within. Jesus advises them to seek the food that endures, not the food ...

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