The Summa Contra Gentiles (Illustrated)
modern terminology, the word “cause” would be confined to the efficient cause. The unmoved mover may be regarded as a final cause: it supplies a purpose for change, which is essentially an evolution towards likeness with God.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Theism tries to put a ledge on this infinite regress by asserting the necessary existence of an Uncaused Cause or a Self-Existent Something from which everything else flowed.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
It may be stated as all axiom that to stay alive every created thing needs some other created thing and all things need God. To God alone nothing is necessary.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
Aristotle imagined the movement of the stars and the planets guiding all movement on Earth. But there had to be something causing the heavenly bodies to move. Aristotle called this the “first mover,” or “God.” The “first mover” is itself at rest, but it is the “formal cause” of the movement of the heavenly bodies, and thus of all movement in nature... See more