Quotes About Intent

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Nothing's random. Even if it looks that way, it's just because you don't know the causes.

was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

woman once again with a mission.

3. Turn Complaints into Solutions. The goal is not to eliminate all complaining. The intent is to eliminate the kind of mindless complaining that doesn't serve a greater purpose and allow complaining that is justified and worthwhile. The opposite of mindless complaining is justified complaining. The former is negative and the latter is positive.

The catalyst of action is intent. It's the other end of the bullet.

signify an intention that I should become any more

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will

In 1971, the Supreme Court had narrowly ruled that closing swimming pools in response to integration orders was not unconstitutional, even if the closure had discriminatory intent, because it affected whites and blacks equally.

Jesus is the prototype man for men. All of us men are only as manly as it relates to the standard set by Jesus. Romans 8:29 helps us to understand this point: "For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers." God's design—His divine intent—is for those who are in Jesus to look like Jesus.

God designed humans with a unique capacity for relationship because it was His intent that this centerpiece of His creation, man and woman, would be relationally connected to Him for eternity. Without relationship none of the other aspects of being an image bearer would matter.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I must learn to focus on what I'm supposed to be doing!

with the intent of ultimately seizing their homes);

Never confuse Motion with Action.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

No intelligent beings did things without motives.

It isn't Prada that the devil wears but a smile that belies the truth of his intent.