Quotes about Intention
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
— Dallas Willard
Accepting God's acceptance of me doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying. It means I'm going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
— Steven Furtick
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
— AW Tozer
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
— John Owen
Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.
— Rick Warren
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
— Charles Spurgeon
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.
— Thomas a Kempis
Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!
— Thomas a Kempis
It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
— Stephen Hawking
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
— Oswald Chambers
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
— AW Tozer
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis