Quotes about Chaos

What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.

It will not start with the order in the universe alluding to the existence of a Creator of the cosmos; it will start with the disorder inside of man himself.

Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one's personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble.

that getting all of one's addictions under control is a little like putting an octopus to bed.

We can be frozen by the chaos we feel inside instead of choosing to stand on the truth of who God's Word says we are. We must not give our enemy such advantages. We must not live that way one moment longer. It's time to trade what we feel for the powerful truth of who we are. How we feel can change in a moment, but who we are is eternal.

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.

Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.