Sentence examples for past deed from inspiring English sources

Thinking of a past deed using a concrete mind-set, however, leads to moral compensation.

He said he had informed Mr. Lee's office about his past deed before he was appointed as minister.

In a recent paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the psychologists Paul Conway of the University of Western Ontario and Johanna Peetz of Carleton University showed that when we think of a past deed with an abstract mind-set — say, by focusing on one that occurred in the distant past — we demonstrate moral consistency.

For example, you may have the thought of a past deed and then you think about this event for the majority of the day.

This is no sympathetic lap of honour for past deeds; no orgy of nostalgia.

The temporary measure gave the utilities immunity for future acts, but not past deeds.

Loyalty for past deeds will not guide the Red Sox in those negotiations.

Those who die unprepared must be reborn (samsara) to live out the consequences of their past deeds (karma).

The moral energy of one's past deeds is conserved and automatically fructifies in the circumstances of a future life.

So long as one is driven by ignorance and desire and is encumbered by the residue of past deeds, death brings no cessation to repeated rebirth.

Mayor Giuliani, who claims not to have read the book, said that his father was "compulsive about being honest," perhaps to compensate for his past deeds.