Quotes about Intention

What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

The Bible is not an argument. It is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it's the word of God or it's inspired or it's whatever the current word is that people are using. The point is to enter into its stories with such intention and vitality that you find what it is that inspired people to write these books.

At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.

Second, Jesus consistently affirmed heaven as a real place, space, and dimension of God's creation, where God's will and only God's will is done. Heaven is that realm where things are as God intends them to be.

Sabbath leaks. It spills over. It changes how you live the other six days. When you intentionally slow down, you instantly see how fast you've been moving the rest of the time.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.