Quotes about Intention

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one's intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

Faith is not a product of our will. It occurs without intention, without will. Words expire when uttered, and faith is like the silence that draws lovers near, like a breath that shares in the wind.

It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

Gerat will be our astonishment in that day, and we shall then realize that it is not our works which remain, but the work which God has wrought through us in his good time without any effort of will and intention on our part. Once again we simply are to look away from ourselves to him who has himself accomplished all things for us and to follow him.