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Quotes About Intention

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
NO ACCIDENTS If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you would see You Are A Totally Determined Being
~ Ram Dass
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.
~ Randy Alcorn
The earth matters, our bodies matter, animals and trees matter, matter matters, because God created them and intends them to manifest his glory.
~ Randy Alcorn
Delay. Procrastinate. Postpone. This is our evangelism strategy.
~ Randy Alcorn
Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither."34 We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.
~ Randy Alcorn
We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be. Such people will pass on a heritage to their children far more valuable than any inheritance.
~ Randy Alcorn
But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.
~ Ravi Zacharias
The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother
~ Ravi Zacharias
To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Dragostea poate fi exprimat? cu adev?rat doar printr-o angajare a voin?ei.
~ Ravi Zacharias
knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.
~ Ravi Zacharias
is it not possible that the Grand Weaver has a design in mind for you, a design that will adorn you as he
~ Ravi Zacharias
You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood.
~ Ray Bradbury
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?
~ Joseph Conrad
There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare to yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.
~ Joseph Conrad
And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over and inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.
~ Joseph Conrad
There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare for yourself; but it came in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream, remembered with wonder amongst the overwhelming realities of this strange world of plants, and water, and silence. And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.
~ Joseph Conrad
It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
~ Joseph Conrad
Thou'rt wise, and knowest better than I speak. And as he is, who unwills what he willed, And by new thoughts doth his intention change, So that from his design he quite withdraws
~ Joseph Conrad
that the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it.
~ Joseph Goldstein
There are ten actions—three of body, four of speech, and three of mind—that plant the seeds of our own future suffering.
~ Joseph Goldstein