Quotes about Intention
You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.
— Charles Dickens
What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.
— Gregory Dickow
We make the Holy Scriptures the rule and measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
— Marianne Williamson
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Falling in love is accidental, staying in love is intentional, and growing in love is delightful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
— Thomas Edison
Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession.
— Thomas Paine
Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
— Thomas Monson
How far from godliness, are those who are unspiritual in their worship, who do not do duties from a renewed principle and with the utmost intention of soul—but merely to stop the mouth of conscience! Many people look no further than the bare doing of duties—but never heed how they are done. God does not judge our duties by their length—but by love.
— Thomas Watson
When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.
— Thomas Watson
Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.
— Norman Vincent Peale