The Rational Bible Quotes

“You have, as it were, to be nowhere to encounter the God of everywhere. In the silence of the desert you hear the voice of God. In the isolation of the desert you find yourself alone with God.10”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Numbers: God and Man in the Wilderness

“Our lives are lived mostly in the long and ordinary stretches of wilderness, not in the revelations, epiphanies, and dramatic moments of Exodus. The purpose of life, therefore, is not about relying on excitement, let alone miracles, nor on getting into our Promised Land—not even Moses could achieve that—but on how we live and find meaning in the wilderness.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Numbers: God and Man in the Wilderness

“I began The Rational Bible with the second book of the Torah, Exodus, because it contains the Ten Commandments, the most important moral code in world history and the central moral code of the Torah. If people lived by those ten laws alone, the world would be almost devoid of man-made suffering.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Numbers: God and Man in the Wilderness