Quotes about Cause

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

the root cause of all demonic activity is the absence of the love of God.

This is certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience may be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge. Knowledge of God is a transcendental problem.

With a keen eye to take in every detail, we are to focus on who he [God] is, see the world through his eyes, love what he loves, grieve what he hates, and join his cause.

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

To put it another way, God is able to interact with us in ways we interpret (through our time-bound experience of cause and effect) as the result of time-like capacities in the person or essence of God or the existence of other time-like dimensions.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.