#intentions

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#because #comes #good #intelligence #intention

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#intelligence #intentions #our #results

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

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay. ↗

— Angie Stone

#advantage #because #feel #get #giving

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#good intentions #had #intentions #money #only

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions but action. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#wisdom #life

Nothing shocks me anymore...except pure intentions. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#motives #motivational

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. ↗

— Mel Smith

#business #centre #comedy #cow #end