Sentence examples for practical deeds from inspiring English sources

Even more to the point, aren't the practical deeds of Christian councillors as they work locally for justice and the common good supremely more important than any expressions of public piety they might engage in?

Neither theoretical knowledge nor practical deeds get to the center of the moral life, which is love both the "affection" of love and the theological virtue of charity.

And it makes practical sense because the international deeds and misdeeds of governments are more equitably dealt with through state-to-state negotiations than by hauling one country's officials in front of the judges and juries of another.

The practical effect of splitting the deed of trust from the promissory note is to make it impossible for the holder of the note to foreclose, unless the holder of the deed of trust is the agent of the holder of the note.

The aftereffects of these bloody deeds spread forth on levels practical, psychological and metaphysical, rippling outward like waves in a dark pool.

The Social Contract's "aspiration" that altruism alone will compel good deeds must sometimes yield to the practical reality that morality sometimes needs a boost along the way.

This unity, therefore, has no need of any metaphysical support; instead, it is simply a practical requirement of being an agent, a doer of deeds and a thinker of thoughts (Korsgaard 1989).

The first principle of the Jena Wissenschaftslehre is thus equally "practical" and "theoretical," insofar as the act described by this principle is a "doing" as well as a "knowing," a deed as well as a cognition.

To determine whether some doctrine is right, we can compare it to the "three models"—the deeds of the sage-kings, perceptual experience, and practical benefit.

Maybe a lot of people would have been spared some trouble if his earlier deed had been more public, not hidden in practical obscurity.

Any of us who have paid attention to the role of innovation, invention and creative enterprise in American history knows that envisioning a new future is intensely practical -- in fact, it is the beginning of the deed itself.