Quotes about Motives

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come... with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

they are listed in the approximate order of their importance and greatest usefulness: The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes from inside me. The things that happen to me will influence my responses but never determine them. Rather, these responses flow out of the thoughts and motives of my heart.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

Deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

So many marriages are filled with resentment, but voluntary acts of service can be the quickest way to replace resentment with love. When we act in service with godly motives, resentment suffocates and dies. It is only when we see that our pride and selfishness are the greatest barriers to our joy (rather than our spouse's sins or shortcomings) that our marriages will fully express the character of Christ.

Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.