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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201. Bah Humbug Department
Illustration
George Bernard Shaw
... of medieval mummery, shyly proferred, not advertised, moderate in its expectations, and soon over. Note: This ill tempered screed on Christmas can be found in an article published in the Saturday Review (1 January 1898), entitled "Peace and Goodwill to Managers." Shaw's dislike for the commercial and festive aspect of Christmas is well known. So it's not a surprise that he was not a religious man. Though he understood and respected that people had the right to believe in whatever they chose, he scorned at ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Beria at once dropped down beside Stalin, seized his hand, and covered it with kisses. (2) No use taking any chances in case the dictator was alive after all. I believe that Laverenti Beria would qualify as a “fawney.” Nobody likes a phony. Even Jesus disliked phonies. We’re often reminded that Jesus never called anyone a sinner, and that’s true. He looked pass the sin to the person caught in a misdeed. Still, even Jesus had no sympathy for phonies. The word he used to describe them most often was ...
203. House of God
Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Household of God!” Because God loves difference. God made each and every one of you ….unique and beautiful, each of you “younique” in your own way. God made you with your own likes, tastes, and differences. With your own ideas, perspectives, and loves, and dislikes. But guess what? When we put you all together, you make a beautiful, and delightful “pesto” of praise! As long as you “talk to one another” in your household of God. As long as you interact with one another. You don’t have to ...
204. Formed by the Potter's Loving Hand
Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the complexity of our sensory bodies and intuitive minds. Of course, we all know the power of scent. Even as well-developed as we are as human beings, we still have a keen sense of smell that provokes in us not just like or dislike of one scent or another. Smell stirs memory. Smell influences mood. So, when we approach someone and get an uncomfortable, unexplainable feeling….are we sensing something about that person’s emotions? That person’s spirit? Are we “smelling” danger? Perhaps we’ll never ...
205. Mercy Me!
Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... , Jesus teaches His disciples about the evil of judging. And Jesus gives this radical advice –it’s easy to be merciful to those you like, to your friends and family. It’s very hard to be kind and loving and merciful to those who make you mad, whom you dislike, whom you disagree with, whom you believe to be threatening you in some way. And yet, Jesus calls us to do just that for the sake of our own hearts. The heart is the focus of this teaching. And Jesus reminds us of God’s way of “measure for ...
206. Crossing Over
Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 48:1-22
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Galilee was here all the way north. And the land of Samaria lay smack in the middle! So you would think wouldn’t you that you’d just go right through. But no self-respecting Jew in Jesus’ time would do that. Instead, they went clear around. They disliked them for a whole lot of reasons, most based in past history. [You can if you wish talk briefly about the intermingling of the people during the diaspora, or what Judah saw as corruption of the faith, or their refusal to worship in the same Temple, or ...
207. By Invitation Only
Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24, Proverbs 25:1-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... take on, because He will constantly challenge you, force you to question yourself and your motives, your actions, and your decisions. He will turn your table dynamics upside down and your assumptions inside out. Following Jesus is not about our comfort, our likes and dislikes, fulfilling our preferences, or expecting things to be the same as we’ve always had them. Following Jesus is not about us at all. It’s about jumping aboard a mission to serve others, to invite others, to love others, to offer our ...
208. Second Sight
Luke 24:13-35
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... I took walks and noticed new buds, types of trees, all manner of railroad ties, how trains are constructed, found countless new places driving about in the area outside of town. The list could go on. I also noticed new things about myself, my likes and dislikes, and about others around me, especially at places such as the grocery store. I noticed the way people are creating their own style of masks, some colorful, some plain. I noticed the way people I never met say hello just to connect with another human ...
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Andre Gide
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddhist Proverb
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
Edgar Watson Howe
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
L. E. Landon
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
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