Quotes About Intention

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

God is the process. The process is what I Am... You cannot not use Me... If you use Me with awareness and with intention, all things will change.