Quotes about Causes

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ.

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

It is, moreover, evident from hence that it is a greater matter to be truly and really holy than most persons are aware of. We may learn eminently how great and excellent a work this of sanctification and holiness is from the causes of it. How emphatically doth our apostle ascribe it unto God, even the Father: 1 Thess. v. 23, "Even the God of peace himself sanctify you." It is so great a work as that it cannot be wrought by any but the God of peace himself.