Quotes about Intention

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

If he had loved her he would have pursued her.

It was typical of Jim that, once sure of God's leading, he did not turn aside easily. The "leading" was to Ecuador, so every thought and action was bent in that direction. Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Thus, one of the obstacles that lay in the path of the missionaries was partly overcome. A presentation of gifts seemed the obvious next step. Perhaps a carefully-planned, regular program of gift-drops, made over a period of time, would show the Indians that the intentions of these white men were friendly, and the repetition would gradually convince them.

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By