First Cause Argument Quotes & Sayings

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain. — Adoniram Judson

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will. — John Greenleaf Whittier

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money. — McLean Stevenson

It makes a world of difference to know that God loved you enough to send His only begotten Son to suffer and die for you. Suddenly our lives and sufferings aren't meanigless accident, but part of God's loving plan for us. And our acceptance of that plan becomes our own loving response. It is the difference between being in love and living a dreary existence! — Amadeus

I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me — Herryicm

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God? — Michael Shermer

Smiles and friendly nods are like fabric softeners for the face. — Peter Hedges

This is the latest approach by antitheistic thinkers who seek to explain good and evil apart from God. Over the years naturalists first denied causality as an argument to prove God's existence: Why do we have to have a cause? Why can't the universe just be? Then they denied design as an argument for God's existence: Why do we need a designer? Why could it not have all just come together with the appearance of design? Now they deny morality as an argument for God's existence: Why do we need to posit a moral law or a moral law source? Why can't it just be a pragmatic reality? This I find fascinating! They want a cause for suffering or a design for suffering, but they have already denied that either of these is necessary to account for every effect. This — Ravi Zacharias

The first major debate between racists had invaded the English discourse. This argument about the cause of inferior Blackness - curse or climate, nature or nurture - would rage for decades, and eventually influence settlers to America. Curse theorists were the first known segregationists. They believed that Black people were naturally and permanently inferior, and totally incapable of becoming White. Climate theorists were the first known assimilationists, believing Black people had been nurtured by the hot sun into a temporary inferiority, but were capable of becoming White if they moved to a cooler climate. — Ibram X. Kendi

Optimism is the best fertilizer. — Kevin J. Anderson

Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love. — Miguel Ruiz

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise. — Ben Crenshaw

If you ask religious believers why they believe, you may find a few "sophisticated" theologians who will talk about God as the "Ground of all Isness," or as "a metaphor for interpersonal fellowship" or some such evasion. But the majority of believers leap, more honestly and vulnerably, to a version of the argument from design or the argument from first cause. Philosophers of the caliber of David Hume didn't need to rise from their armchairs to demonstrate the fatal weakness of all such argument: they beg the question of the Creator's origin. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can't restructure our society without restructuring the English language. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The family is more sacred than the state. — Pope Pius XI

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. — Cristina Kirchner

Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing him (though it's not in the Russian spirit to reproach a criminal)
there would be no end of cursing. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky