Quotes About Intention

Here's how it works. God transports us to a situation. There is no such thing as happenstance in the life of a child of God. His intent is to use fallible people to give out His infallible truth to a world living in error. He wants to use weak people who love and obey Him to transform the society to which they have been transported. Then, as we tell others, our own lives are changed in the process.

And not that I don't love those words, but what were you wrong about? Walking away from you. She stepped into him. I'm done with that, by the way. I'm walking straight at you from now on.

Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.

Never point a gun at anything you aren't sure you want dead.

I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.

The difference is, anything we just make out of our will, they can slip most of the punch," he said. "I ain't got time to give you a graduate seminar on intention versus the natural operation of the universe until you've completed my 'why it's a damned stupid thing to trust vampires' course.

It's what you do with the want that matters.

It's a study in deliberate asymmetry.

Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious

from: Age Sixty-nine) Often, lately, the night is a cold maw and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.

You can have a pretty good first line but not a strong enough thought to tag along more lines and sometimes in the middle words become bored and make war on one another. Notebooks are full of these fragments, shrapnel of our intention. Life is short on conclusions and that's why it's often a struggle to end a poem.

At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

I did that on purpose,' Lucille Miller told Erwin Sprengle later, 'to save myself from letting my heart do something crazy.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God's law." -127

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.