Sentences with phrase «abandon good works»

We may abandon good works or do them out of wrong motives and intentions.

Not exact matches

The strategy worked so well for Ms. Cannon that she eventually abandoned it — but not before making key contacts.

In this work, the well - known postmodern thinker urges the Catholic Church to abandon the truth claims she connects to her faith.

They work in soup kitchens, care for abandoned babies, teach adults how to read, treat the sick, and do countless other good works, for which they receive almost no recognition and very little pay.

I propose that we abandon our religions of good theology and good works.

To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving God.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

(Cf. also Alfred Baeumler, «Bachofen, the mythologist of Romanticism», in the work of Bachofen quoted above: «Those who are blind to the depths of mythology had better abandon it altogether.»)

When more emphasis was given by preachers to the gaining of indulgences — for instance, by the good work of making a cash contribution to the building of a church — than to the sacraments, the liturgy and ordinary acts of charity, then it was made to appear as though the values of the Gospel were being abandoned.

If I have to just deal with it I'm okay with that, it works too well to abandon.

I hadn't seasoned my new crepe pan yet and was impatient, but found with pan I used that abandoning crepe technique and making pancakes a bit thicker it was a little like injera in texture which actually worked really well.

Why then, has he now abandoned the one player that seemed to make this system work so well?

That's not to say that there isn't a troubling pattern of failure in the latter stages of the Champions League, but what was astonishing on Wednesday was that he took a system that had worked so well to the point that City has lost only two meaningful games all season and stands 16 points clear atop the Premier League table, and he abandoned it for something else.

The pattern here of «try something and then abandon it in favor of something else that works better» was a key to our surviving infant twins.

Some have argued that the best way for socialists to relate to Sanders supporters is to work inside his campaign for the presidential nomination — in order to be well - positioned to lead people to an alternative when Sanders abandons them for Hillary Clinton next year.

If that is the sum of our electoral «pragmatism,» however, then we may as well abandon any practical working goal of democratic socialism.

Creating the problem were several factors: including a formal environmental review process that needed completion after being abandoned by then - governor Eliot Spitzer seven years ago, and a series of carefully wrought but ultimately obtuse statements from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, in charge of the projects, as well as its own expansion plan's, review.

But what happened on Saturday night at the prestigious Eko Hotel represents one good specimen of how newspapers and media organizations in general could inspire good things in the society and cause good works to be rewarded beyond what is being lamented as the abandoned positive developmental roles the media could play in society's growth.

Also, unlike working wells, which have productive lifetimes of 10 to 15 years, abandoned wells can continue to leak methane for decades.

Abandoned oil wells and depleted natural gas reservoirs might also work, Peek says, as long as they are not too remote to be hooked into the electrical grid.

Although direct forearm work does a fairly good job, and should not be abandoned, grip work will stimulate the whole musculature in the forearm, providing additional growth.

My best answer to you is to have an open mind, and do not rely only on conventional medicine once work up is complete and you are left essentially abandoned.

The dress works very well with my little blue velvet Elvis booties and as I mentioned before, I can eat and move with abandon.

Real Steel's human drama is wrought between deadbeat dad Charlie (Hugh Jackman), his abandoned but headstrong son Max (Dakota Goyo, who resembles Jake Lloyd but at the very least has better dance moves), and love interest Bailey Tallet (Lost's Evangeline Lilly).

Peck's film sets out to make use of the unfinished manuscript of Remember This House, Baldwin's late - career attempt to grapple with the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, but it soon abandons this premise for the kind of emotional detours that give some of Baldwin's best work its freewheeling, capacious spirit.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Dean, Kazan and Paul Osborn (who wrote the adaptation) earned Oscar nominations, while Jo Van Fleet nabbed the Best Supporting Actress award for her work as Cal's hard - boiled mother, who years earlier had abandoned her family and ended up operating a whorehouse in the adjacent town.

Prisoners works so well because it boldly addresses a terrifyingly ugly subject with complete abandon.

The solution is not to abandon democracy, but to consider whether different iterations of it might work better than others.

Research findings, anecdotes, and test scores can inform the debate about whether a particular school reform has worked or not worked, or whether it is a «good» approach or a «bad» one, but the decision to continue or abandon that approach will always be political in nature.

To retain good teachers, we must allow teachers to make decisions about how they teach and abandon efforts by legislatures to micromanage their work.

In her luminous new novel, Barbara Delinsky explores every woman's desire to abandon the endless obligations of work and marriage - and the idea that the most passionate romance can be found with the person you know best.

Although it may seem like these lives are somehow simple and serene, she shows that they are plagued with the same worries that keep all of us up at night - the safety and well - being of our families, the desire for self - fulfillment and, on a larger scale, the impact we have on our environment... Further, Badkhen is fully willing to do hard work - she blisters her hands pulling nets, bakes in the sun while helping to build a boat and expends emotional energy consoling abandoned wives in the community; clearly she is not afraid to fully immerse herself.

I wasted about a year working through mainstream agents and contracts before I realized that the «best case scenario» was not a direction I wanted to go and abandoned it.

People make the mistake [of thinking] «Ken is trying to kill the physical business just to grow the digital business,» but actually for the past few months, all I'm doing is focusing on the physical business just to make sure we are not abandoning our roots, and I think it is working well.

A novice investor could start on the right track, be discouraged by the short - term results, and abandons an approach that would have worked over time very well.

In the end, any debt repayment strategy that works for you is better than one that you'll abandon before success, regardless of how strategies compare «on paper.»

Don't mistake this occasional check - in as an attempt to abandon our strategy of buying and holding stocks for a year, after all it's worked pretty well so far (see chart below).

For the past 20 - plus years, Ruth has worked on behalf of homeless, helpless, abused, dumped, abandoned, caged and frightened animals to make their world a better place.

When I initially found out that there was a no kill sanctuary in Utah, that gave the very best of care and shelter to animals who were abandoned, found on the streets (many of them injured or sick), taken from hoarding or other horrific conditions, it deeply touched my heart reading about the generosity and selflessness of the people involved and the work they were doing and I had to give my support.

I felt good about doing this seminar because I like working with abandoned / rescued dogs, and I felt that this was a good way for me to help good dogs find new homes.

An experienced animal trainer who volunteers at local shelters, Davidson has spent years working with abandoned cats and dogs, as well as doing regular photo shoots for the Oregon Zoo.

A working home with proper daytime care arrangements, can be a better compromise for an abandoned dog, than remaining in a large rescue kennel, or being put to sleep.

We work to find both abandoned, as well as surrendered Pugs, loving, forever homes in which they can live out the rest of their lives.

Dogs Deserve Better of Northern Virginia works closely with our DDB partners operating in rural and disadvantaged areas to find homes for abused, neglected, and abandoned dogs, especially those living on chains or in confinement.

The timing worked out well and he's very happy to be here helping to save the lives of abandoned dogs and cats.

FAAWO focuses on best practices for humane organizations and its members work closelyto rescue, shelter, rehabilitate and place abandoned and orphaned animals in their forever homes.

By working with committed volunteers, foster homes, local veterinarian, trainers, and boarding facilities, we are able to rescue dogs that otherwise would've been euthanized or abandoned and provide them with loving temporary care, and find them well - matched, carefully screened forever homes.

London - based animal welfare charity, Mayhew, is holding a month of fundraising in May to continue their life - saving work to help abandoned, neglected and vulnerable animals, as well as owners in need, both in the UK and overseas.

But then in their concluding paragraphs, after providing evidence that current methods aren't working, the action steps proposed by the authors are: (1) all pets should be neutered and (2) owners should be be better educated so they don't abandon their cats.