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"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."
Thought
"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
Truth
"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."
Family
"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
Men
"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
News
"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
Action
"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."
Children
"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
Circumstance
"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."
God
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
Press
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