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I don't have much truck with the "religion is the cause of most of our wars" school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.

— Terry Pratchett I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The Nome Trilogy (1989)

Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.

Hogfather (1996)

I don't think I've found God, but I may have seen where gods come from.

I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

The Carpet People (1971)

Dodger lived in a world where nobody asked questions apart from: “How much?” and “What’s in it for me?”

Dodger (2012)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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