Quotes About Intention

What something has evolved for and what something actually does are two separate things. Once we come to possess a capacity, we can use it for unintended purposes

What we were in the past is not important. What we are now is important. What we intend to make of ourselves in the future is vitally important. The unity between our character and our destiny is inseparable; the connection between our way of thinking and the course of events is unerring.

It was all God's plan, and is befitting to the Wise.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Even the most regular, seemingly unimportant tasks of my life must be shaped and directed by a heartfelt desire for the glory of God.

God created an awesome world. God intentionally loaded the world with amazing things to leave you astounded. The carefully air-conditioned termite mound in Africa, the tart crunchiness of an apple, the explosion of thunder, the beauty of an orchid, the interdependent systems of the human body, the inexhaustible pounding of the ocean waves, and thousands of other created sights, sounds, touches, and tastes—God designed all to be awesome. And he intended you to be daily amazed.

you become like the treasure that you seek.

None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

Change what you do, not how you think. You are what you do, your happiness is what you attend to, and you should attend to what makes you and those whom you care about happy.

when u have no enemies ,you are characterless.

Each of us is precisely where it has always been known we would be, doing exactly what we are doing right now.

1) "Yahweh's initial design for his people is deliverance;" (2) "Yahweh's design is to form a godly community;" (3) "Yahweh's intention is that there be an on-going relationship with his people;" (4) "Yahweh's intention for his people is that they enjoy the good life."22

The credo of Asclepian or brain-oriented healing is 'don't just sit there, do something.' [...] The credo of Hygeian or heart-oriented healing is 'don't just do something, sit there.

An unrecorded goal is only a wish.

Everything is design. Everything!

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage.

I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a sort of music, and should not introduce meanings or intentions into the diction before clearly grasping the system of sounds that every poem must offer on pain of nonexistence.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

The universe doesn't do random.

The only difference between a prayer and a curse is the one who stands to profit.