Intended Quotes

832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it… — Alan Hirsch
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept… — Mark Hart
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously… — Grant Morrison
The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where the… — Karen Hesse
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended… — Suzy Kassem
If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed… — Suzy Kassem
All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God. — C. J. Mahaney
A practice that is suitable for one person is not necessarily suitable for someone else, and a practice that is appropriate for one person at… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs. — James MacGregor Burns
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of… — Ron Paul
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to… — David Ben-Gurion
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. — Verne Troyer
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new,… — Ellen Tauscher
Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and… — Karen Armstrong
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an… — Garrett Hardin
God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people. — Ray Stedman
The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure -… — Ray Stedman
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce
American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they… — Colin S. Gray
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being… — John Stuart Mill
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to… — Bill Bright

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