Quotes About Intention

But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

She didn't answer him. He didn't expect her to. It was just a seed he wanted to plan.

Pero de cada buena intención sale un camino hacia el infierno.

But I'm not mad at Garrett, because I know this is not about him intentionally wasting water. It's that he's mesmerized by it. Not by the water itself, but by the sheer power to be able to make it flow, and make it stop with the simple flick of the wrist.

I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

Needing and getting don't seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

When we bless people and treat them lovingly, we are using our status the way God intended.

Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

Discipline is not so much the way by which we are constrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction.

goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Let me ask you, what are you planning to do with the rest of your days?

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

It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it

They've pushed it far, this little toy space station; but who's to say if it is God's intention for humans to live here, in orbit around this swollen alien giant of a planet?

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.

Awesome," I told him. "I felt defensive at first, like I hadn't done anything worth apologizing for, but I recognized that it wasn't about my intention; it was about how my action was received. That my action was unwelcome. I get that now, and it didn't take long for it to click this time.

After all, I want to live my life, not rush through it.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity.

Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.

Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.

When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's holding you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.

I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.