Sentences with phrase «only good intentions»

If only good intentions were worth anything, we'd have a perfectly green world!

The Young Williams Animal Shelter in Knoxville, Tennessee, had only good intentions when it developed the «Furry Friend Sponsorships,» which allow impounded animals to go to new homes free of cost, but the shelter found itself the victim of a ruthless Craigslist scam.

But there was never malice behind her actions, only good intentions.

We have only good intentions since our essential aim is to help students improve their grades.

Even in the hardest moments, there are still hopeful, beautiful, interesting, useful things — if only the good intentions and virtues inside one's own mind.

It sounds like her questions came from an open heart and she had only good intentions.

That's why so many of us — with only the best intentions — begin each new year with a set of resolutions.

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I am indeed an active Wikipedia supporter, have made contributions of knowledge and money to the cause, and had only the best intentions when adding the two resources Medical Assistant Net and MA Exam Help.com.

It is fantastic to see forum full or like - minded people, giving and taking with only the best intentions.

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Not only are these mistakes common, but they usually come from the best of intentions.

The move to an unlimited policy appears supremely well - intentioned and it's certainly light years ahead of the majority of company policies» here in the U.S., one of only two countries (hi, Papua New Guinea!)

That skill not only allows them to maintain a good sense of their own image, but it can also be extended outside themselves and makes them better suited to gauge the intentions of others.

For Winfrey, being a brand is not only about being consistent but about being true to your intentions as well.

Ever start your day with the best intentions to get things done only to reach mid-afternoon wondering what happened to your productivity?

You may even start your day with the best intentions, only to find yourself staring blankly at your computer screen for long stretches of time.

The only problem: Good intentions don't count.

Did they miss the part where lots of well intentioned «investors» bought Facebook shares at $ 80B, $ 90B, $ 100B, only to see the shares trade down to a fraction of that value?

The investment intentions survey released in early July (scoff, but it's the best piece of forward - looking data we've got) suggested the hit would be only 20 %.

Most tech was made with good intentions; only later do the unintended consequences become clear.

The only conclusion then is the lack of one, which has become the Fed's fundamental dilemma despite the central bank's good intentions.

In this post, you'll see that only the directories with good intentions have survived.

While I'm sure they are setting those up with the best of intentions, only too soon it will expand into something more constricting.

They have no intention of remaking the soul of humanity — only of harnessing human egoism and cultivating a better human nature.

To a notable degree even yet, the unmodernized Indian's life is corporate, and the individual exists only in his tribal relationships and functions, so that when the Government, even with good intentions, has tried to serve the Indian on a different basis, taking him away from home for education, discouraging old folk - ways as heathenish, assuming individualistic thinking in his treatment, the result has commonly been the disintegration of the Indian's life.

I don't think I speak only for myself when I say that we teachers do not always succeed, nor are we always on good form, despite our best intentions.

If there are only a few Muslims in a village or a city, build a mosque with good intentions and God will bring more Muslims to that place.

The pastor will meet those parishioners who will «Do some part of a good deed without completing it,» yet remain unduly confident that they have in fact done it already, and only when they will find the regrettable side of their intention manifesting itself, will they become naively surprised.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.&raonly when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.&raOnly a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

I wondered how many people show up, determined to «Reach Haiti for Christ», in their matching Mission Trip T - Shirts, and then blunder and hurt in their ignorant good intentions, before leaving to never return, only the wound remaining to fester.

Pope Benedict's decision to lift the excommunications, in hopes of healing the divide, provided certain Catholic teachings are finally accepted by the Society, is well - intentioned, and we can only pray it bears good fruit, in light of continuing concerns.

Well - intentioned though these tales may have been, they stood in stark contrast to most Christians» experiences with the devil — and only further enforced the notion that he wasn't quite real.

• But a bad intention makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good (CCC 1753): «This people honours me only with lip service, while their hearts are far from me» (Mk 7, 6 quoting Is 29, 13).

And for Presley, who'd grown up a Christian and had the best of intentions when he took on Hollywood as a young, ambitious actor, hitting rock bottom might have been the only way he'd finally sit up and listen.

The observer was left with the feeling that Catholics have no real answers to the charges that were being made, only that our intentions are good.

I believe you are purposefully being derisive and caustic with the intention of ridiculing not only my faith, but me as well.

I've experienced powerful moments of true community within the church only to have them eventually wrecked and ruined by well - intentioned people trying to turn it into something greater, or packaging it and marketing it for church growth purposes, or inflicting it with pressure to subscribe to a homogenous ideology and lifestyle, or imposing a vision upon it that turns it into an end rather than a thing of beauty in and of itself.

As I've written in the past, sidelining the objectivity of truth encourages the triumph of bourgeois religion, a generic do - good sentimentality characterized by only one stricture — which is that the conduct of the well - off, well - educated, and well - intentioned residents of the rich world of the West is not to be judged in any definitive way.

We not only can not control the effects of our actions (we too often «do evil» when we intend to do good), but we can't even be clear as to our intentions.

Every now and then he'd cause a problem, but only when trying to fix another one — and always with the best of intentions.

This commandment can be violated not only overtly but as well in mind and in intention (Matt.

When people think they can, the result is well intentioned but ridiculous explanations that only show how far we are from really understanding these things.

'» But in fact one of the main reasons the book was written, according to its author, was to show that this is not the case; and Mr. Leithart's comments on the book are so directly opposed, not only to the author's explicit intentions but to the contents of the work as well, that I can not help but feel that Mr. Leithart has either not read the entire book or else has not read it very carefully.

Its only hope for unity therefore must be discovered in him, unveiled to the Church, rather than pieced together and manufactured through ecumenical slogans and well - meaning intentions.

I'm not knocking the good intentions; only suggesting that there are more efficient ways.

This reflection comes in January for a reason: with all this talk about diets, gym memberships, and New Year, New You, it's important to stress that good intentions are only really viable if you balance them with happiness too.

«Diversity» and «inclusion» are terms that are thrown around a lot in recent times, and of course, people only have the best intentions with respect to these ideas.

No longer do I buy a bunch of greens with good intentions only to have them sit in the fridge and wilt as I remain uninspired.

What better way to signal your intention to challenge by selling your best — your ONLY good player.

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..