Quotes about Intention
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
— Thomas Merton
If you don't want the effect, do something to remove the causes. There is no use loving the cause and fearing the effect and being surprised when the effect inevitably follows the cause.
— Thomas Merton
The simple, chaste lines of a monastic Church, built perhaps by unskilled hands in the wilderness, may well say infinitely more in praise of God than the pretentious enormities of costly splendor that are erected to be looked at rather than to be prayed in.
— Thomas Merton
We are not responsible for more than our own action, but for this we should take complete responsibility. Then the results will follow of themselves, in a manner we may not always be able to foresee. We do not always have to foresee every possibility.
— Thomas Merton
What comes out of our hearts through the words of our mouths determines what comes to pass in our lives. It's the absolute truth.
— Kenneth Copeland
The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.
— Carl Jung
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.
— Isabel Allende
Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.
— Isabel Allende
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
— Anonymous
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
— Wayne Dyer
U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract
— Wayne Dyer