Quotes about Order
The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
— Henry David Thoreau
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
How I looked forward to having my house neat and orderly again.
— Janette Oke
Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
— Norman Vincent Peale
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
— Aristotle
Things always work according to their nature.
— CS Lewis
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
— Thomas Merton
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
— Vince Lombardi
Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good. To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814
— Thomas Jefferson
The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of man's life are to be ordered. Therefore it inevitably inclines the will to violate God's law.
— Thomas Merton
We have been fashioned, in all our perfection, each according to his own nature, and all our natures ordered and harmonized together, that man's reason and his love might fit in this one last element, this God-given key to the meaning of the whole.
— Thomas Merton
What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?
— Thomas Merton