Sentence examples for cause of evil from inspiring English sources

He said such behavior was a cause of "evil and catastrophe".

It expresses the belief that sin is the cause of evil in the world and implies that salvation must come through humanity's repentance and God's forgiveness and restoration.

This was, lest we forget, the series that blindsided its young readers by having a White Rider appear, only to turn out to be just as villainous as the Black Rider - extremism of beliefs, in Cooper's equation, being the true cause of evil.

Holcot had argued that logically, God can be called the cause of evil.

An appeal to natural function, by adding extra commitments to the idea of a cause of illness, rules out skin pigment as a cause of evil.

If God is the cause of every thing (entitas) and moral evil (malum culpae) is a thing, then God is the cause of evil.

The morals are clear, the virtues plain, the causes of evil transparent.

For Kant, whose philosophy echoes Augustine's in some respects, it is inappropriate to seek the causes of evil because to do so implies that it belongs to the order of nature that is subject to laws of cause and effect.

Given these considerations regarding the causes of evil, and the limits of human understanding, what is the most reasonable hypothesis concerning the first cause of the universe?

Hume describes a fourfold catalogue of causes of evil in this world none of which "appear to human reason, in the least degree, necessary or unavoidable" (D, 11.5/205).

They rather are, as Iamblichus reports, causes of evil (On the Soul in Stobaeus I.374.21-375.18; fr. 43.7 9), as the soul loses its simplicity and purity.