Terry Pratchett Quotes

The notions of consumer choice and local control have stormed the religious realm.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

No religion can be built on force.

Religion is too important an aspect of human life to be prostituted to politics, just as politics is too important a part of human life to be enslaved to religion.

Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

God is all powerful, He's in control.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.