Quotes about Intent

The disciplines are practices that change the inner self and its relationship to the "helper" (paraclete), so that we can actually do what we would and avoid what we would not. They of course have no point apart from the serious intent to obey Christ's teaching and follow his example.

Satan, and his intent is to thwart God's purposes by manipulating the minds of human beings.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. That

The means have murdered the end.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

The first division is between playful and serious conversations. By playful conversation, I mean all forms of talk that have no set purpose, no objective to achieve, no controlling direction. In addition, like play itself, which is that form of human activity in which we engage purely for the pleasure inherent in the activity itself, conversation that is playful in intent rather than seriously motivated is conversation that is enjoyable for its own sake, and not pursued

On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

John could have intended a double meaning. In the end, darkness was not able to suppress the Light even by placing the Light in a tomb. However