Quotes about Order
THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order.
— Edmund Burke
Rather, it provided a literary framework within which the author could effectively express the Hebraic conviction that one God created the world by bringing order out of chaos. He was interested in thematic rather than chronological organization.
— Gregory Boyd
How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.
— Virginia Woolf
The life of religion consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
— William James
For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
— 1 Corinthians 14:33
because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own image has been transformed into flesh.
— John Calvin
So what's the correct pace? In my opinion, for most products a customer needs to experience about eight touchpoints before they are ready to place an order.
— Donald Miller
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
But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.
— Wendell Berry
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
— Genesis 33:2
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
— Esther 3:13
Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
— William James