“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest religions on Roundworld was founded by a carpenter's son!' Ponder snarled. 'For years, the most powerful person on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Auditors had tried to understand religion, because so much that made no sense whatsoever was done in its name. But it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That was a dhlang !" he said. "An evil spirit! The peasants down in the valleys hang up charms against them! But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder." In the silence of the woods, Polly turned. "I can't see… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magic is one thing, and reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits is another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh? And of course there clearly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--' 'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict. Strappi stared at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This was not the time to say “I don’t know.” The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes, listening with his mouth open, wondered why the hell it was that dwarfs believed that they had no religion and no… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A’Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This Is Religion, Boy. Not Comparison Bloody Shopping! You Shall Not Subject Your God To Market Forces!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
