Quotes about Intention

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one's intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.