"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence."
-E. Stanley Jones
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"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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"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."
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"At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."
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