"the cause of everything" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a single source or phenomenon that is responsible for a wide range of things. For example, "People often say that money is the cause of everything, but I disagree."
Discriminating against one ethnic group and claiming that they're the cause of everything that's wrong.
Through Obamacare, the cause of everything that's wrong with the country today, possibly including forest fires and the helium shortage.
At least that is how it appears from the way Republicans single out the speaker as the cause of everything from their near-blanket opposition to the economic stimulus legislation, to the 9,000 earmarks in the overdue spending bills.
These are the same fans who had previously decided Luongo was the cause of everything wrong with the franchise and spent last season lighting torches to accompany his exit from town.
While each successive era's ideas about motherhood have had a political and economic dimension, the proliferation of parenting manuals and programmes such as Supernanny signals something else: a moral panic over parenting that feeds into the narrative of "broken Britain", in which "faulty" parenting is the cause of everything from obesity to educational failure and even divorce.
(AKBh 193.9 10) Thus, if God is the cause of everything, God is always the cause of everything or, if God's nature at time t is to be the cause of everything, then God must cause everything at time t.
Ignorant people are sure of the causes of everything.
I'm this famous guy who lost his famous wife!" It's a contradiction: Billy Joel is keenly aware that he is "Billy Joel," but he doesn't seem to understand fully how that designation is the cause of virtually everything good and bad about his life.
The first cycle started with Alcibiades (on self-knowledge) and ended with the Philebus (on the final cause of everything: the good), comprising two dialogues on ethics (the Gorgias and the Phaedo), two on logic (the Cratylus and the Theaetetus), two on physics (the Sophist and the Statesman), and two on theology (the Phaedrus and the Symposium).
On the contrary, Malebranche insists that "God is the sole cause of everything in the world, up to the smallest movement of the smallest atom".
Of these, the One is the first cause of everything else; it is characterized by sheer unity which renders it beyond thought and beyond description in language.
