Quotes About Cause

Never do something for just one reason.

If I were to refuse to obey orders I should betray my living friends. And the living have more rights over us than the dead. You told me that yourself. Therefore choose life, it is written in the Scriptures. I have espoused the cause of the living, and that is no betrayal.

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.

If matters get mixed up then scrutinize the cause and you will know what the effects will be.

An idea is a being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of manifestation.

For me, the natural world in all its evolutionary splendor is a revelation of the divine- the inviolable matrix of cause and effect that reveals itself to us in what we cannot control or manipulate no matter how pervasive our meddling.

I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3

The headman nodded, then asked: "So is this is the cause of rebirth, Sir?" "It is. An individual may have to take an indefinite number of births to harvest the effects of all his latent impressions, and then, in each fresh lifetime there is further action, which sows further seeds of karma".

Well, it will continue until the destruction of its cause". "And what is that, Sir?" "The way we identify with our body as the doer of action. And this lifelong habit is only destroyed by knowing oneself to be the bodiless Self. This is why it is said that knowledge is the fire that reduces karma to ashes".

Quando se vê um fato que não se compreende, e quanto mais extraordinário ele é, mais suspeitas desperta e mais o pensamento se esforça para lhe dar uma causa vulgar; se ele, porém, for compreendido, é logo admitido por ter uma razão de ser, desaparecendo assim o maravilhoso e o sobrenatural

This was, after all, an army whose cause was inextricably bound up with the defense of black enslavement.

You can't escape karma ... It is what it is. It doesn't judge, it's neither good nor bad like most people think. It's the result of all the actions, positive and negative--a constant balancing act of events--cause and effect--tit for tat--reaping and sowing--what goes around comes around ... However you phrase it, it's the same in the end.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

Progress to reduce hunger is being made by tackling both the cause and the consequences of extreme poverty and famine.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.