Quotes about Order
God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.
— Mother Angelica
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.
— Anne Lamott
God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.
— Michael Heiser
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
— John Knox
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
— Nancy Pearcey
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
— Victor Hugo
You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.
— Marianne Williamson
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
— Desmond Tutu
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
— Aristotle
It is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible. Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty.
— Aristotle
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Anon they move in perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.
— John Milton