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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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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Holbrook Jackson

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Samuel Richardson

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Thomas Hobbes

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

J. I. Packer

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

619. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , mercy, and peace in our world. All God requires is someone with a “Shepherd’s Heart,” someone who understands the heart of God, someone who will carry out God’s love and mercy in real time circumstances, even when it goes against culture, tradition, inclination, and upbringing. In the story of Abraham and Isaac that we read for today in Genesis 22, at first reading, it looks as though God is calling Abraham to do an unthinkable deed –to bind and kill his son. However, we are tipped off from ...

620. Get Out of the Jungle!

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... happened, and it continues to happen. Our dark path gets interrupted in the most unexpected way. There is no logical reason in the world that we human beings should be given a surprise alternative to our own worst instincts. But that’s what we have. Our natural inclination is to swim in a dark swamp. But now we have an option. There’s a path into a bright future. There’s a jungle out there — and there’s also a light-filled, hopeful, healthy alternative. Let us get out of the jungle! Let us embrace ...

621. Jesus Matters

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... when they did it. We see signs of this in the first chapter of the gospel of Luke. This Jesus champion, like the other gospel writers, is looking for ways of convincing whoever will pay attention that Jesus does indeed matter. Nowadays we are inclined to say that the arguments Luke used are not particularly convincing, but they may have been at the time. At the beginning of his gospel, Luke uses two arguments designed to convince his readers — or listeners — that Jesus truly does matter. The first ...

622. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? The group that took the time to record the things they were grateful for each day showed “higher reported levels of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, optimism, and energy” and lower levels of depression and stress. They also felt more loved and were more inclined toward acts of kindness. (5) If you know a positive and loving person, you already know that it’s true. When you express feelings of gratitude whether toward another person or toward God, it has a positive effect on your own spirit ...

623. Descended Like a Cat

Humor

Dramatically inclined, a clergyman had a dove in the high gallery during a service of worship. On the cue, "The Holy Spirit descended like a dove..." by the minister, the janitor was to throw down the dove into the unsuspecting congregation. At the proper time the preacher gave the cue - three times! After the third cue, everybody was shocked to hear the janitor say, "The cat ate the Holy Spirit. Do you want me to throw the cat down?"

624. The Clues Are There

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... , unkempt castoffs from “respectable society” — being elevated to a place of great importance. The theme sounded in today’s text mirrors this ‘lifting up’ of lowly people. It comes in a sentence spoken by Simeon, one that many readers of this story are inclined to dismiss as unimportant — or perhaps no more than the rambling thoughts of a senile old codger. Be not deceived. When Luke adds a detail to his story, he puts it there for a reason. What Simeon has to say is not unimportant. Here ...

625. Unsanctified

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... was restored. We don’t revere Jesus simply for his teaching. We love to read about Jesus’ amazing wisdom in the scriptures and we too are amazed at how astute he was at recognizing our faults, our moods, our mental and emotional blocks, and our unhealthy inclinations. But that’s not why we worship Jesus. That’s not why we have a church. We worship and revere Jesus, because Jesus is the Son of God with the power to vanquish evil, to destroy sin and death, and to create resurrection in every person ...

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

Holbrook Jackson

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Samuel Johnson

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Samuel Richardson

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Thomas Hobbes

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

J. I. Packer

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

619. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart