Quotes about Order

Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need. We go to a local branch office and direct the clerk (sometimes called a pastor) to fill out our order for God. Then we go home and wait for God to be delivered to us according to the specifications that we have set down. But that is not the way it works. And if we thought about it for two consecutive minutes, we would not want it to work that way.

I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.

Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love , not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

Faithfulness in our Christian walk requires order, some black-and-white fundamentals, but within that order is glorious room for color and creativity.

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

Work—day-in, day-out exertion and concentration—produces progress and order. That's a law of the universe.

When you pray, God reveals anything in your personality that is resistant to His order of things.

Divine organization is inherent in all things.