Quotes Tagged "causation"

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Tags: serendipity, necessity, naturalism, luck, kalam-cosmological-argument, inspirational, darwinism, chance, cause-and-effect, causation, causality
... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.
Tags: thinghood, knowledge, god, divine, causation, being
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Tags: wonder, understanding, truth, thinking, the-gods, stare, preservation, piety, philosopher, nature, mob, miracles, knowledge, interpret, impious, ignorance, heretical, heresy, gods, fools, foolish, cause, causation, authority, astonishment, adoration