#intention

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

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#activities #begun #being #cannot #collective

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#even #george #george w #intentions #knowledgeable

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

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consists #doer #done #gift #given

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#get #i #imagine #intention #interests