Pastoral Resources

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.