Quotes about Intention

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts. What we think shapes who we are.

Your best decision is the next one that will help you be the person God created you to be.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Take a breath, look around, a voice seemed to be whispering. None of this is here by accident, and neither are you.

Nothing happens by accident, Norman, she'd said. It's all part of a larger plan.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.