Sentence examples for efficient cause of from inspiring English sources

He is what Aquinas humbly calls "the First Efficient Cause of things".

God is viewed as both the material and efficient cause of the universe.

Bhaskara viewed brahman as both the material and the efficient cause of the world.

Shiva is seen as the sole reality and both the material and efficient cause of the universe.

Of the three realities admitted God, souls, and matter God is the independent reality, self-conscious, controller of the other two, free from all defects, abode of all good qualities, and both the material and efficient cause of the world.

Am I the efficient cause of the exertion?

Builders and fathers are true efficient causes of building and insemination, but they are only auxiliary efficient causes of the existence of buildings and children.

Sublunary substances such as plants and animals are efficient causes of this lowest type.

We have reason to think that we are not the efficient causes of our own behavior.

Created things are the proximate efficient causes of generation and corruption, but God is their remote efficient cause.

This contribution is acknowledged through their designation as auxiliary efficient causes of the existence of buildings and children.