Sentence examples for reward material from inspiring English sources

Our hearts are surely in the right place, and while virtue may be its own reward, material comfort is pretty nice too.

This initial step is substantiated by our data showing that VTA activity at encoding mediates the acquisition of highly rewarded material.

Our goal in developing the following set of measures and ratings was to provide the basis for an SBEI summary score that preferentially values or rewards material-focused prevention and control, gives medium weight to process-focussed control, and values worker-focused control the least.

There concertgoers expect and reward obscure material; they may even own it in their 78 collections.

3. Praise is the reward, not material goods for good grades.

The church supports so-called "prosperity theology" – by which acts of faith including donations are rewarded with material wealth.

The tithe is an important part of life at the Universal Church, which was founded in 1977 by Bishop Macedo and says it follows the "prosperity theology" by which faith and commitment to a church are rewarded with material prosperity.

It may be that giving children cash rewards — or material ones, like hip cellphones — is not merely reflecting the empty values that landed us in financial trouble, nationwide; disturbingly, that kind of system may actively be reinforcing them.

The UCKG preaches prosperity theology, which says that devotion to God will be rewarded with material wealth.

Children who are punished for undesirable behavior (or conversely, rewarded with material goods for helping others) do not develop an internal sense of right and wrong; they merely learn to comply.

The late Oral Roberts promised, among other things, that devotion to his kind of Christianity would be rewarded with material wealth, and he became one of the founders of a school of theology now known as "Prosperity Gospel".