God is order and revealed by order…

• God as universal laws is a God of order and harmony. Anthony Lambert
• God is revealed by the order and harmony of the universe. Anthony Lambert
• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. Albert Einstein
• Order is manifestly maintained in the universe… governed by the sovereign will of God. James Prescott Joule
• God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me. Mother Angelica
• The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. Vera Kistiakowsky
• We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking
• Calling is a ‘yes’ to God that carries a ‘no’ to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world. Os Guinness
• The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Allan R. Sandage
• What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn’t affirming God’s absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist? Umberto Eco
• Physicists use ‘God’ as a metaphor more often than other scientists– especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God. Taner Edis
• I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible. William Daniel Phillips
• All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself. Aiden Wilson Tozer’

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…the order behind the laws of the universe

• God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Paul A. M. Dirac
• I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. Albert Einstein
• I believe God is a name we give to the mystery of the world that is beyond our capacity to understand. I believe that the energy of the universe is ordered by forces I cannot comprehend. Robert Jensen
• Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God’s laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature. Charles Babbage
• When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it’s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it. Tony Rothman
• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. Alan Lightman
• Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order…. This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. Albert Einstein
• The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction. John Andreas Widtsoe
• Science is based on the assumption that the universe is thoroughly rational and logical at all levels. Atheists claim that the laws of nature exist reasonlessly and that the universe is ultimately absurd. As a scientist, I find this hard to accept. There must be an unchanging rational ground in which the logical, orderly nature of the universe is rooted. Paul Davies
• Einstein regarded the universe with the same kind of feeling that religious people direct towards the Judeo-Christian God. He was just amazed and awe-struck by the fact that the universe exists, that it is so ordered, and how mysterious it is. He was also struck by how science and reason could give us access to the structure and order of the universe. Because the universe was so ordered and possible to understand Einstein gave it divine qualities and called the universe – or the laws of nature – God. Sam Woolfe
• Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple limpid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely… have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all. Stuart Kauffman

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God brings order out of chaos

• Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. Lord Byron
• The universe owes its existence to the emergence of order from chaos. Deepak Chopra
• God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system. Immanuel Kant
• God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy. Buckminster Fuller
• Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy. Buckminster Fuller
• What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build. B. Meyer
• God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. Swami Vivekananda
• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing. Alan Sandage
• Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. Rollo May
• He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life. C. Sproul

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…especially order out of the chaos in our own lives

• It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen. Thomas Chalmers
• Maybe it’s only those who’ve made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God’s mercy. Francine Rivers
• How does God teach me peace? Not when I am out fishing and everything is going my way and it doesn’t get better than this. But in the middle of chaos. How does God teach me patience? By putting me in His waiting room. Rick Warren
• Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere. Oswald Chambers
• Oh, God, why don’t I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul? Marilyn French
• Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos. Beth Moore
• The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perhaps its truer to say God is the dynamic interplay of order and chaos

• Chaos is God’s body. Order is the Devil’s chains. John Updike
• Was Chaos a god — a divine being — or simply a state of nothingness? Stephen Fry
• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. Georg Buchner
• God never said He’d eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He’d bring meaning to it. Bob Goff
• I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck… Neil Gaiman
• As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. Arthur Koestler
• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. Ralph Fiennes
• The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it. Septima Poinsette Clark
• The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you’re seeing God clearly. Caroline Myss
• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force. Frederick Lenz
• Whether Chaos brought life and substance out of nothing or whether Chaos yawned life up or dreamed it up, or conjured it up in some other way, I don’t know. I wasn’t there. Nor were you. And yet in a way we were, because all the bits that make us were there. Stephen Fry
• Although there is a kind of order in the world of quantum physics, such ordering is also dynamic. We might imagine it as webs of connection and interdependence. Motion in any one place affects the whole. My vision of flashes of light, ever moving, indeterminate and dynamic, offers an image that might better approximate the nature of God in such a universe. Nothing, not even God, is static or fixed. Flora A. Keshgegian