Incline Quotes

• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Action, Providence

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• The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Dark, Light

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

  Mark Akenside

  Grace, Mind, Different

  Mark Akenside (1744). “The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books”, p.136

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• I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Character, Acceptance

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• Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Truth, Heart, Way

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• If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

  Saadi

  Wise, Art, Truth

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• I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

  Fred Durst

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• But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Mind, May

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton ...”, p.228

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• All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Cheating, Morning, Children

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• You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you.

  Bob Proctor

  Trust, Lying, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 20, 2017

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• Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

  George Saunders

  Bigs, Big Questions

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.56, A&C Black

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• When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Reality, Should Have

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• The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Miracle, Realizing

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Coping

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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• We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

  William Whewell

  Names, Needs, Use

  The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences vol. 1 (1840). Whewell coined scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the early 1830s.

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• All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effectiveness, Color, Individuality

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• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Stories, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Generosity, Grace, Showers

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• When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  1970 Political History, ch.2.

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• If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

  Kang Youwei

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

  Salvador Dali

  Sex, Accomplish Nothing, Self

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• If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Passion, Ifs, Powerless

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 08, 2017

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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