Quotes About Intention

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

l'unica cosa su cui sarai giudicata è se l'hai chiesto.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed (311).

I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin." -In the yellow time of pollen

Not a man of habits, though he wished to be

Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.

Lynda Madden Dahl

Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

He had already decided to study law, not because he intended to be a lawyer, but because, he told Bradford, "the principles and modes of government are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

I know what is wrong. You haven't decided what you want. She'd underlined this many times. Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. ? Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

remember the decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

We have to put our hearts and our minds in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.

My attitude of love must be fiercely guarded when considering adding activities. My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity..... mt attitude of love must trump my activity every time.

Whatever it is, if we are really going to stop circling the mountain and head north toward lasting changes, we have to empty ourselves of the lie that other people or things can ever fill our hearts to the full. Then we have to deliberately and intentionally fill up on God's truths and stand secure in His love.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.

growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His. It's what I call intentionally positioning ourselves to experience God—and the posture we are to take

It's not the "how to" I'm missing. It's the "want to" . . . really wanting to make changes and deciding that the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.

We consume what we think about. And what we think about can consume us if we're not careful.