Terry Pratchett Quotes

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

The ordinary is the divine.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God.