Quotes about Intent

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present. As long as your attention is in the present, then your intent for the future will manifest, because the future is created in the present. You must accept the present as is. Accept the present and intend the future. The future is something you can always create through detached intention, but you should never struggle against the present.

You must be very specific in your wishes or they'll come back to haunt you.

It is Satan's desire to destroy the world. God's intent is not to destroy the world but to deliver it from destruction. His plan is to redeem this fallen world, which he designed for greatness.

The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will.

Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Nothing good happens accidentally.

I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.