Quotes about Intention

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

As I entered a home to make a pastoral visit, the person I came to see was sitting at a window embroidering a piece of cloth held taut on an oval hoop. She said, "Pastor, while waiting for you to come I realized what's wrong with me—I don't have a frame. My feelings, my thoughts, my activities—everything is loose and sloppy. There is no border to my life. I never know where I am. I need a frame for my life like this one I have for my embroidery.

Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.