Quotes About Intention

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.

He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

God never does anything accidentally.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

Now is the time to align our goals with God's goals.

In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?

But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.