Sentence examples for good inclination from inspiring English sources

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.

Similarly, in the Jewish tradition, there is a distinction between the yetzer hara, the evil inclination grounded in the ego and our animal nature, and the yetzer ha-tov, the good inclination grounded in the divine soul.

You may find you sigh during the process - that's a good inclination that you are getting it all out of your mind.

And a conscious choice is precisely what is required for a (good) action to be considered moral, a good instinct or good inclinations may make us good, may even be desirable, but by itself this is not enough to make us moral.

As he put it, "If the love of doing good be not of itself a good and right inclination, I know not how there can possibly be such a thing as goodness or virtue" (C 46).

She feels a need, she says, to serve "the public good," an inclination she admits can lead to being labeled "naive or disingenuous today".

In particular, they need to deal with the fact that, even if they are not in the business of deriving goods from inclinations or identifying the goods precisely with what we tend to pursue, they take as their starting point human directedness.

A Robert Stone character is often in a position to do harm or good, and his inclination is often to choose harm.

Table 4 lists the coefficients of the linear fit, showing good agreement for inclination angles.

Radiographical parameters of good reduction were: radial inclination 20°(±5), volar tilt 10°(±5°), radial length 10 mm, neutral ulnar variance, no articular step-off.

As his photographs of lone stones, abandoned structures and smashed trees show – there's a good selection here – his inclination isn't to animate the inanimate.