Quotes about Cause

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.

Hence the entire psalm accuses nothing but pride, as stated below (v. 23): The pride of those who hate Thee goes up continually. For this is the cause of unbelief and the beginning of all evils.

May the Lord, whose cause this is, enlighten you and make you a vessel to honour and glory. Amen.

Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause.

Love is the energizing elixir of the universe, the cause and effect of all harmonies.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. If

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

My proposal, then, as the way of making sense of all the data before me, is that Jesus believed it was his god-given vocation to identify with the rebel cause, the kingdom-cause, when at last that identification could not be misunderstood as endorsement.

Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.

The existence of personal beings constitutes evidence that they were created by a personal God, not by any non-personal cause.