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Quotes about Intention

Concretely, we intend to live in the kingdom of God by intending to obey the precise example and teachings of Jesus. This is the form that trust in him takes. It does not take the form of merely believing things about him, however true they may be. Indeed, no one can actually believe the truth about him without trusting him by intending to obey him.
— Dallas Willard
Similarly, it is the vision of life in God's kingdom and its goodness that provides an adequate basis for the steadfast intention to obey Christ.
— Dallas Willard
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
— William Faulkner
For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Oh, one world at a time!
— Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME
— Leonard Ravenhill
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
— James Allen