Sentence examples for evil inclination from inspiring English sources
"My father says it's a tool of the Evil Inclination".
It is the duty of man to overcome his evil inclination, and it is for this that he is rewarded.
As the concept of Satan evolved, he is very much associated with the yetzer hora (evil inclination) and seen as prosecutor and sometimes as tempter.
The duality of his nature was explained by the existence of a good and bad impulse, personified by two angels, yetzer ha-ṭov (the good inclination) and yetzer ha-raʿ (the evil inclination), which enter each man after birth.
Our evil inclination tempts us to defy G-d's will, not to fulfill His purpose.
For the sin which we have committed before You with the evil inclination.
The struggle against the external oppressor waxes and wanes, but the fight to suppress the evil inclinations within is perpetual.
Rabbi Salomon recently told a gathering of thousands of people in Lakewood that by coming together they would be asking for God's help in fighting evil inclinations, according to Hamodia.
It encompasses the whole of the life of a believer and can be divided into three major segments: 1) against the enemies of Allah and his religion -- Islam; 2) against Satan; 3) against the evil inclinations of one's inner self.
Just doing the commandments, without endeavoring to understand them, will leave us fighting an endless, fruitless war against our stiff-necked evil inclinations because such observance does NOT change an individual.
