The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.