Quotes about Intention

The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend. Your Sabbath, Lord, thus keeps us by Your will, not ours. And it is fit Our only choice should be to die Into that rest, or out of it.

It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical behavior. It demands love for God and our neighbor, and does so with such immediacy and unmistakable urgency that it is pointless even to pause before this demand unless we are willing to respond.

I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.

The thing about Steven Seagal is that he clearly wants to be a great person, but he just doesn't know how.

We think, How much better life would be if a certain situation or a relationship were different! Meanwhile, God says that what needs change most is us! He does not just work to fix situations and relationships; he is intent on rescuing us from ourselves. We are the focus of his loving, lifelong work of change.

Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.

The heart regulates the hands.