Quotes about Intention

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

Take more time, cover less ground.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

THE UNIVERSE IS set up to work on your behalf.

Knowing who you are and why you came here -- that you are a child of God, and that you came here to heal and be healed -- is more important than knowing what you want to do. What you want to do is not the important question. The question to ask is, When I do anything, how should I do it? And the answer is, Kindly.

Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the uplifting of all things.

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

And to the truth of this testimony is borne by what takes place in communities: because the law-givers make the individual members good men by habituation, and this is the intention certainly of every law-giver, and all who do not effect it well fail of their intent; and herein consists the difference between a good Constitution and a bad.