Quotes about Intention

I never intended to hurt your feelings, my love," Sylous said as he drew his fingers along her cheek and back behind her ear. Rose inhaled desire as he traced the outline of her face. Her heart beat out of rhythm. Her skin tingled. Awe of Sylous had quickly turned to love long ago. He was her truest companion, the one she dreamed of and longed for. Next to God, Sylous had become her everything.

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.