Cosmic Order Quotes

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

I think life's too complex to be an accident.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.