Sentence examples for deeds and thus from inspiring English sources

Often less than five hectares in size, these smallholdings lacked title deeds and thus could not be used as collateral for loans.

Being charitable is a way of purifying your material deeds, and thus never losing track of the most important goal, which is serving God in this case, by serving your fellow humans.

We can assume he anticipated massive publicity for his deed – and thus for his message.

The Water Act of 1967 (Swaziland Government, 1967) is the main legislation that regulates the apportioning and use of water but it only applies to title deed land and thus excludes all communal land, which constitutes 54percentt of total land in Swaziland.

They're prepared to come on In Our Time and other programmes on Radio 4 and try and talk to the rest of us...".. "Now have I seen him with my own eyes, knowing him in truth to be the wise Lord of the good mind and of good deeds and words". Thus spake the real Zarathustra, the prophet and founder of the ancient and modern religion of Zoroastrianism.

The protagonist does three good deeds and asks the beneficiaries to do three good deeds and so on.

("Righteousness" and "justification" translate the same Greek word, dikaiosynē.) In later Christianity it was sometimes supposed that "works of the law" are "good deeds" and that Paul thus set faith in opposition to good works.

Why elevate this vile little deed and so foster mayhem?

According to Jains, such inequalities and oddities that exist even from the time of birth can be attributed to the deeds of the past lives and thus provide evidence to existence of karmas: The Jain theory of karma has been challenged from an early time by the Vedanta and branches of Hindu philosophy.

STOP PRESS*** Until 2006 it was common to declare a lower purchase price on your deeds than that actually paid (and thus pay less property tax).

With no sacrifice on the home front, and no visible evidence of the horrific ultimate sacrifice made by our brave fighting men and women, how do you expect us to understand the harsh realities of this war, and thus honor heroic deeds such as those of your example, Capt.