Quotes about Intention

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Frivolous they might be, but the people of Ecbatana at least saw that the world was created for their delight, and as they jumped about in the frigid streams and wasted their money in the crowded bazaars, they came closer to living their lives as the Holy One intended than those who were continually apologizing for their unworthiness and trying to avert the wrath of the One who, had they but known, wishes the world only well.

Our Lord has a double view of us: the way He intended us to be and the way we corresponded to His grace.

Peace belongs only to those who will to have it.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business.

Don't imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame.

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger.

To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.