Sentences with phrase «pure motives for»

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

Not exact matches

We seldom do good things for totally pure motives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now, you can call it a focus on knowledge frontiers or whatnot, but it's pure manipulation for impure motive.

So keep on criticising Dr. Jones on the basis of clear facts, but please do not make him responsible for the mistakes of others and do not indulge in pure speculation on supposed ulterior motives.

At best we can blame his lack of credentials for all the errors in his piece though I suspect his real motive is pure disinformation.