Quotes about Motive

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Gregory of Nazianus taught around AD 370: "The responsibility of pastoral office is great indeed, and no one ought to enter who has not deeply examined motive and ability, who has not struggled against call in the face of godly demands of office and the frailty of mere humanity.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.