Quotes about Order

Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order. And how does that help us against these disorderly women who hunt us? What branch of evolution are they? Is evolution just another name for God?

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.

There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.

I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules

St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all things given to us are given in order that we might know their author. This leads us to gratitude for His kindness toward us.

In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps and staggers. Yet the fact remains that some seed of political order has been implanted in all men. And this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no man is without the light of reason.

But the nimbleness of the human mind in searching out heaven and earth and the secrets of nature, and when all ages have been compassed by its understanding and memory, in arranging each thing in its proper order, and in inferring future events from past, clearly shows that there lies hidden in man something separate from the body.