A revival does two things. First it returns the Church from her backsliding and second it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom pride and conditional love things may look good for a while but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial incomplete and to a great extent superficial modification of barbarism.
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy it is gross it is alienating... because it causes war hypocrisy and competition.
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that as of tomorrow technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power which is why we have the global problems we face today.
As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
In teaching man experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes like the objective reality of things will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is not what ought to be. Science is descriptive not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed science disavows purposes.
And religion causes most of the problems war and economics of course and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling you don't get it you're missing the whole point.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in and homage rendered to existences unseen and causes unknown.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion which causes us to leave the world and seek God.
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.