Quotes about Intention
Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.
— Rick Warren
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
— Charles Spurgeon
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
— Thomas a Kempis
Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!
— Thomas a Kempis
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
— Stephen Hawking
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
— Oswald Chambers
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
— AW Tozer
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis
Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
— Max Lucado
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
— Desmond Tutu
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
— Frederick Buechner
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson