Quotes about Order
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
- William James
I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.
- Jack Kerouac
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
- Charles Spurgeon
When your life is not in order, you feel discomfort.
- Bishop TD Jakes
God's purpose for your life cannot manifest in the midst of chaos. You can't reach the place you were destined to be if you're constantly getting sidetracked. You cannot reach your life purpose when everything in your life is undisciplined, distracted, and disordered.
- Bishop TD Jakes
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.
- Victor Hugo
I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order
- Oprah Winfrey
Polybius: Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.
- Carl Sagan
If the structure of the world with all its order and beauty is only an effect of matter left to its own universal laws of motion, and if the blind mechanics of the natural forces can evolve so glorious a product out of chaos, and can attain to such perfection of themselves, then the proof of the Divine Author which is drawn from the spectacle of the beauty of the universe wholly loses its force. Nature is thus sufficient for itself; the Divine government is unnecessary.…
- Carl Sagan
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
- Carl Sagan
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
- Letitia Baldrige