#tent

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

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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

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#adequate #carries #consistent #does #flaw

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#big #content #hollywood #i #i am

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#attention #between #classes #ear #easy

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable. ↗

— Stan Jones

#blue #even #extent #i #media

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy #everybody

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#american #american film #aspects #because #certain