Quotes about Intent

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.