Quotes about Order
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
— James A. Garfield
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
— St. Augustine
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
— James Madison
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
— William Golding
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
— Hildegard of Bingen
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
— John Calvin
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
— Albert Einstein
Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
— Edith Stein
God plans all perfect combinations.
— David Brainerd
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
— AW Tozer
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
— Stanley Hauerwas
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
— Andy Stanley