Quotes about Intention
We will take the good will for the deed.
— Francois Rabelais
True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
— Billy Graham
Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.
— Billy Graham
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
— Billy Graham
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
— James Allen
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
— Adoniram Judson
Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.
— St. Augustine
If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.
— Germany Kent
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
— Philip Yancey
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.
— John Maxwell
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
— Madeleine L'Engle