ultimate cause

Unawares it slipped from them, the reason within the reason for their ill, the ultimate cause of sorrow.

Four words from the Bible carry us back to the ultimate cause, the first mover in this gourd's withering.

Here, again, we have the common error that Atheism seeks in some way to explain the ultimate cause of existence.

The idea of the end, the final cause, is thus the real ultimate cause of the movement.

Lastly, as efficient cause, God is the ultimate cause of all motion and becoming.