Quotes About Intention

I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the center of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own.

there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?

an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, what is my intention in doing this?

Gary taught me that an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in. It sounds complicated, but really there is nothing I do that doesn't start with my asking myself, What is my intention in doing this?

The good news is that the brain is malleable all through life. We can change. But we don't randomly change. To use your favorite word, we can intentionally change if we know what needs to be addressed. The key is to recognize the patterns.

an intention precedes every thought and every action, and that the outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in.

outcome of your experiences is determined by your intention going in.

make my decisions based on what I intended, not just on what someone else wanted me to do or what I thought would please them.

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Balance your thoughts with action.

While we can will a change in behavior, we do not by an act of will change….

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

Life only gives us exactly what we ask for, both good and bad. The real challenge is in understanding the subtle ways in which we ask.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

The wrath and the enmity of God are not for a moment in contradiction with God's reconciliatory will and love, and pointing to the wrath of God has the constant intention of disclosing to man God's grace and love in Christ. Indeed, the object even of the working of God's wrath itself is to cause his plan of redemption to triumph.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

The evil plan is most harmful to the planner