#intent

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#continuing #creation #exercise #faculties #given

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly. ↗

— Kesha

#intentions #like #out #properly #translated

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#attacking #capability #cost #dead #destruction

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#hardest #his #intentions #life #man

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#america #any #cannot #defend #evil

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. ↗

— Helen Garner

#began #easily #fall #fell #fulfilment

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. ↗

— Paul Getty

#i #intention #jacqueline #kennedy #marrying

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#apparently #changing #disgruntled #done #i

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. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go