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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

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.

Buddhist Proverb

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.

Gautama Buddha

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

Mark Rutherford

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

Olive Moore

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Sigmund Freud

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Simon Wiesenthal

209. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

... our souls? Jealousy — what causes us to have dissatisfaction and envy? Selfish ambition — who do we discredit for our own advancement? Nobody sitting in the pews this morning, if you are very honest with yourself, can deny that idolatry, envy, jealousy, gossip, anger, and hatred have crept into your lives. This is the power of Satan within us. We cannot deny it, but we can control it. Jesus came from the seed of a woman to conquer and destroy Satan, to crush the head of Satan, destroying any power ...

210. The Sign of the Serpent’s Tree

John 3:1-17

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Lori Wagner

... acts of violence, such as the Manson commune. How is this possible? The human spirit has always been a two-edged sword. We are capable of great acts of love, and we are capable of terrible acts of hatred and violence. When left to our own devices, it’s easy for us to descend into venomous hatred and anger, even with righteous intention. Only when we allow ourselves to be guided by the Holy Spirit, putting God in control, can we be assured that our actions will be embedded in love and our “free spirits ...

211. Deliverance through adversity

Sermon

Willie Soler

... . His Word reveals that the fear of the Lord is the key to life and wisdom. “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Psalm 14:27) c. Adversity strengthens our hatred for sin. The pain of adversity helps us recognize the deception of sin. Our hatred of evil will increase when we realize how sin keeps us from living in a way that honors God and how it damages the lives of those, we love “God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap ...

212. A Miracle of Grace

Philemon 1:1-21

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King Duncan

... love and the power and the Lordship of Jesus if we did not offer that same abundant grace to all those who ask for it. Johnny Lee Clary was raised by an alcoholic mother and a violent father who deliberately schooled him in the finer points of hatred. After his father’s suicide and his mother’s abandonment, Johnny Lee found a “family” in the local Ku Klux Klan. By age fourteen, he was rising in the Klan ranks. He set his sights on becoming Imperial Wizard, one of the highest positions in the Klan ...

213. Trusting God When You've Been Hurt

Genesis 45:1-28

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... she treated you.” The pastor said, “I didn't do it just for her. I also did it for myself. I reached a point where the burden of resentment was too heavy to carry around anymore. I couldn't be free of the pain till I was free of the hatred. And anyway, I decided if I cannot love people who make loving difficult, how could I ever stand in a pulpit and preach about love to anyone else?” (7) Isn’t that amazing? “. . . I decided if I cannot love people who make loving difficult, how could I ever stand ...

214. Vengeance: Human and Divine

Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of God, the wings of the morning, the precious thoughts of God, there is a jolt: O that thou wouldst slay the wicked....Do I not hate them that hate thee,... do I not loathe them that rise up against thee? I hate them with a perfect hatred! As John Wesley said, perhaps after reading these verses of Psalm 139, “there are parts of the Psa1ms that are not fit for Christian ears.” Now those are not nice thoughts, particularly in church! Worse, such hateful thoughts are not limited to Psalm 139. In fact ...

215. Witnesses For The Lord

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... healthy little girls now. They still sleep together, too.3 The power of the resurrection is most clearly seen in the love extended to others. It is love that can transform our lives. Love shows us the way out of darkness into light, teaches us to reverse hatred with forgiveness, and gives us hope that, even in the face of death, there can be life. Love is the most compelling expression of the power of the resurrection. After all, why did Jesus endure the agony of the cross and then rise again on the third ...

216. Good News Among The Rubble

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... as earthquakes, famines, and plagues. Can you imagine the rubble scattered over the landscapes by these catastrophes? There are predictions of emotional rubble produced by persecution from religious and political authorities, betrayal by family and friends, and an atmosphere of general hatred toward those loyal to Jesus Christ. How do we react to these dire predictions of disaster? Do they frighten us and make us anxious? Do we echo the questions of the first hearers: "When? What are the signs?" Or do we ...

217. The Open Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ideas, but if we let them go, we will be vulnerable, go out of control, and possibly get hurt. We sit there like the Pharisees in the front row of the synagogue holding onto something that can only defeat us -- resentment, revenge, bitterness, anger, hatred, jealousy, disappointment, and past memories of what parents or spouses or ex-spouses or friends or children have done to us or said to us -- unable to worship, unable to pray, unable to be who we were intended to be, children of God. Clenched fists ...

218. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... , wishing him the eternal peace of Christ. There is a high cost to such faithful discipleship. Can we call it "the pain of forgiving"? Lest we too quickly agree with all of this, let us remind ourselves that our capacity for holding grudges and nursing personal hatreds is an awesome force to overcome. We are all sinners, and that means we are held in the clutches of sin. Much of our sin takes place within the setting of human relationships. In our dealings with other people we find it difficult to practice ...

219. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

220. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... especially in our day of strident voices of fragmentation. But love we must if we are at all to catch the vision of Jesus; and love we must, if we are to help our suffering, starving, dying neighbors; love we must if we are to keep the seething hatred and violence of the world from erupting into an end-all conflagration on this old powder-keg earth. Indeed, many scientists and ecologists are now saying that the only possible way to survive is to begin to take seriously the teachings of Jesus as set forth in ...

221. Flatliners

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... of heaven. And then, for those kinds of people, it may be said, like a paraphrase I read of Psalm 1: Blessed are the man and the woman, the young person, the child.Blessed are they who have grown beyond their greed and put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions.But they delight in the way things are and keep their hearts open, day and night.They are like trees planted near flowing rivers, which bear fruit when they are ready.Their leaves will not fall or wither.Everything they do, everything ...

222. Lent 4

Psalm 32:1-11, Joshua 5:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 15:1-7

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William E. Keeney

... because of his own frantic efforts to win God's favor, that he was able to enjoy his Christian life. B. Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. He strove to live a life of perfection under the law. It left him full of hate, breathing fury and hatred against the Christians. It was through his encounter with Christ and the realization that he was saved by grace that his full possibilities for mission were released. He could use his gifts to build up rather than to destroy. It changed him from one with a narrow ...

223. Weather Signs

Luke 12:49-53

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William E. Keeney

... . But their methods and goals raise questions about whether they are followers of Christ or only using Christianity for their own interests and ends. The KKK puts on a white cloak as the mantle of Christianity. The cloak of Christianity covers a hatred of people who differ from them. They have used threats and brutality, even death, as a means to frighten others into submission. That is contrary to the spirit of Christ. The white supremacist movements also at times use the pretense of being Christian ...

224. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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William E. Keeney

... , must now assume the bad guy role. Can the roles so easily be reversed? Can the bad guy now change character and become the good guy? 3. Modern Pharisaism? Some white supremacists claim that whites are the only true Christians. They justify their hatred of Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, and Jews by this belief. Eventually only the whites will survive and the others will be destroyed. They take religious superiority to an extreme, far worse than the Pharisee in his prayer. A Christian pastor who knew ...

225. Tempted By Good

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... came to give his life, not to protect it. His goal was not the applause of the crowds but the single-minded devotion to the will of his Father. The shadow of the cross fell across Jesus' path from his earliest days. The cross was the symbol of shame, rejection, hatred. He took that cross as his way of saying he would not compromise with evil. He calls us to carry our crosses for him, too. Do not put the Lord your God to the test. Do not try to force God into doing what you want rather than what he ...

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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 201 to 225 of 1199 results

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.

Buddhist Proverb

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.

Gautama Buddha

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

Mark Rutherford

Olive Moore

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

Sigmund Freud

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Simon Wiesenthal

209. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

210. The Sign of the Serpent’s Tree

John 3:1-17