Intention Quotes
My intention is to live more fully each moment with who - how - I actually am, not who I imagine I will be one day.
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.
It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.
You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with each intention.
I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.
