Quotes about Intent

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy. I suppose that's true. What then? Is that all that the world has in mind? If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

if you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

The disciplines are practices that change the inner self and its relationship to the "helper" (paraclete), so that we can actually do what we would and avoid what we would not. They of course have no point apart from the serious intent to obey Christ's teaching and follow his example.

Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.