Terry Pratchett Quotes

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

I doubt that anyone does not really believe in God. People may think they don't have any belief, but you will usually find that there is a belief in something beyond himself. In any case, I would not judge a man's character by his belief or unbelief. I would judge his character by his deeds; and no matter what he said about his beliefs, his behavior would soon show whether he was a man of good character or bad.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

Handsome is as handsome does

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

It is no easy task to be good.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.