Quotes About Cause

We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

Weak, shallow people believe in luck... Strongly willed people believe in cause and effect.

Helen's former suitors had honored their vow, and Agamemnon's army was rich with princely blood. It was said that he had done what no man before him could: united our fractious kingdoms with common cause.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

The effect was mistaken for the cause. Right action came to be regarded as a means to gain Nirv??a, whereas right action is in fact the result of this state of consciousness in freedom.

Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

The definition of a thing includes its efficient cause; and since God is the Primal Cause, He cannot be defined, or described by a partial definition. A quality, whether psychical, physical, emotional, or quantitative, is always regarded as something distinct from its substratum;

Everyone knows they all belong to the Liberation Militia and all they do is cause trouble and commit crimes and stuff like that …

The most visible demonstration of Alchfrith's enthusiasm for Wilfrid's cause

I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.

the sentiments that Albertine had left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.

And what doe they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none must be heard but whom they like, is the worst and newest opinion of all others, and is the chief cause why sects and schisms doe so much abound and true knowledge is kept at distance from us ; besides yet a greater danger which is in it.

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary—if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance runs outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels.

I have been informed that he has started false allegations regarding myself and the cause of my illness. It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.