Sentences with phrase «pure motives»

It's likely a problem of a screenplay (written by Alex von Tunzelmann) that doesn't trust our ability to sympathize with a character who is capable of such contradictory aims and less - than - pure motives.

The film depicts two passionate men — a power hungry tycoon and an artistic genius — driven by not always pure motives.

(LOVE the pure motives!)

A few probably came out of genuine desires and pure motives.

And that is what is going to happen to any young, zealous reformer - no matter how right her cause or pure his motives.

In fact, it may be just plain Christian to engage in Christian activity prior to or apart from good, pure motives.

I firmly believe that giving out of guilt is better than not giving at all, and that sometimes our acts of faithfulness must precede (or do without) our pure motives.]

Check your heart regularly for pure motives for sure, but never be bullied into silence simply because people get angry.

The leven shows that when we give to God, we never give with perfectly pure motives.

But I also believe that most of these other organizations have pure motives in what they are doing and teaching.

We can know that whether we are right or wrong, whether we are living with pure motives or impure, God is at work through even our most imperfect decisions and actions to fulfill his perfect purposes.

We seldom do good things for totally pure motives.

But it is very, very hard, and requires a pure motive, which is rare.

Even politicians who aim to serve the «least of this» don't always have the purest motives.

Our purpose is to pray for wisdom for we are promised it should we ask for it with a pure motive, walk in that wisdom, and leave the results to God.

McIntyre, so the story goes, is looking for answers from only the purest motives but uncovers a web of deceit designed to affirm foregone conclusions whether they're so or not — that humankind is creating dangerous climate change, the likes of which hasn't been seen for at least a thousand or two years.

Or will the profiteers back out of Pax World and instead invest in another mutual fund with profit as a pure motive?»

Not exact matches

I always thought that Broadwell's motives were pure, and I always wondered why Petraeus was granting her the access that he did.

And I try to tell them this is not the case, but then sometimes I wonder about my own motives, because I know they are not always pure.

With a Capital D. Your motives may once have been pure, but your sin of racism or hate has mixed like leaven with the Gospel, and you need to repent.

The primary motive behind HGI is the one that drives all pure science: the need to know.

And even if we do consider individuals as isalated entities, Augustine's exposure of the moral ambiguity of every human initiative and intention — indeed, the impossibility of even knowing for certain our real motives — renders pure Pelagianism incomprehensible.

If sheep get lost when they wander away, it can hardly be the spirit of inquiry or adventure that is reprehensible in itself, but rather the ambiguous mixing of this spirit with impulsive immediacy instead of planning, with distrust of the shepherd but fear to come out and say so, and with a rationalization that one's motives are wholly pure and innocent.

To command that motives be pure was to command the impossible.

Are the motives pure or mixed?

These motives are fear and pride, seldom encountered in their pure state (though that can happen), but usually in compounds.

Here's the point: Whatever Tim Tebow's motives might be (and I think they are pure), his prayers on the field tell the world that God hears and answers the prayers of some people more than those of others.

Even in pure research a person often has a general idea of the sort of results that are likely to follow, and the motives of the project's sponsor indicate the type of outcome for which he hopes.

Maybe my motives aren't pure and my heart is asking out of some evil that I don't understand, but if God doesn't hear me because of that then there is no hope for me.

I will try to give an instance under each of these heads in turn; but it is not easy to get them pure, for in cases pronounced enough to be immediately classed as ascetic, several of the assigned motives usually work together.

Moreover, despite its wealth and power, the United States alone can not save the world, even if it set out to do so with the purest of motives.

Jesus asks the purest of motives.

I'm speculating that maybe some of the people in the crowd that day were there with something less than pure religious motives.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

The Labour Party may have sold its soul but it could tell itself that its motives were pure.

If you are confident and your motives are pure, then call.

It's true to some extent - there are attractive women, who are driven by pure financial motives.

The result, «House of Games» is a wholly Mamet - ian affair, a dark, surreal, twisty - turny story of deceit and duplicity in which no one's motives are pure and no one gets a particularly happy ending, but the hard - edged intelligence and cynicism on display exerts a delicious pull all its own.

In fact, I'd argue that Iron Man 2, despite its huge budget, is really what Manny Farber used to call an «underground movie,» or a pure action movie with no ulterior motives.

Along with the contemporary films of Anthony Mann, The Searchers marks a point in the Western genre where we can no longer necessarily accept the motives of the good guys to be pure, and in fact, are forced to question if the good guys are actually good — perhaps the beginning of the revisionist western.

The Searchers marks a point in the Western genre where we can no longer necessarily accept the motives of the good guys to be pure, and in fact, are forced to question if the good guys are actually good — perhaps the beginning of the revisionist western.

Hunter's motives are pure, but the higher - ups insist on at least one Yorkshire man who's familiar with the previous investigation, and that turns out to be Bob Craven (Sean Harris), a repellent character who antagonizes Marshall with the crudest possible sexual terminology as they review the victims» autopsy reports.

The best that can be said of the three brothers at the center of the movie is that their motives are pure.

What makes Thanos a fascinating villain (as so many Marvel villains are) is that he sees his motives as pure, right, and even noble.

The simplicity of books that are pure text and priced well is always competing with the profit motive to make books complicated and dress them up and price them ridiculously high.

I'm sure that she has the purest of motives and would never use such national publicity to her advantage and make money off of it.

So gamification efforts have come under criticism from many in the games industry for being shallow — that is, lacking the narrative quality of games made with a pure entertainment motive.

In what he calls «butterfly» paintings, Grotjahn builds a sensory world, gripped by curiosity and wonder, the visible and the invisible, in which we encounter the specters of modernism, and indeed, in which we find our perception transformed from pure optical sensation into motive power and emotional energy.

Are Your Motives Pure?

Raymond Pettibon's Surfers 1985 - 2013 exhibition «Are Your Motives Pure?»