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Quotes About Intention

That's the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be.
~ Richard Powers
Join enough living things together, through the air and underground, and you wind up with something that has intention. Forest. A threatened creature.
~ Richard Powers
Giving such violent caretakers second chances, as social workers and judges frequently do, with the best of intentions—attributing their violence to poverty or racial prejudice and propping them up with counseling, household helpers and other resources—cannot reverse their violentization. To the contrary, such endorsement implicitly authorizes further violence and makes the state complicit with the violators.
~ Richard Rhodes
It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.
~ Richard Rohr
Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?
~ Richard Rohr
How can anyone read the whole or even a small part of John 17 and think either Christ or Jesus is about anything other than unity and union? "Father, may they all be one," Christ says in verse 21, repeating this same desire and intention in many ways in the full prayer. I suspect God gets what God prays for!
~ Richard Rohr
God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God.
~ Richard Rohr
If you don't walk into the seond half of your own life, it is you who does not want it.
~ Richard Rohr
probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
~ Richard Russo
The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.
~ Richard Sibbes
If we don't know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.
~ Richard Young
High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.
~ Richard Young
What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
~ Rick Perlstein
A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
~ Rick Riordan
Always, Always have a plan
~ Rick Riordan
Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today
~ Rick Riordan
God never does anything accidentally...
~ Rick Warren
If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.
~ Rick Warren
Most men lead lives of aimless distraction.
~ Rick Warren
Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be.
~ Rick Warren
Why you do what you do matters the most to God.
~ Rick Warren
YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.
~ Rick Warren
Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. EPHESIANS 5:17 THE MESSAGE
~ Rick Warren
Jackson would have chosen himself. It was designed
~ Kate Atkinson