“I think it would be a really good idea if you don’t talk too much about this to the others,” she said. “People don’t mind believing in, you know, gods and so on, but they get very nervous if you tell them they’re showing up.”
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
Because while wizards don’t believe in gods they know for a fact that gods believe in gods.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
There were such things as dwarf gods. Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they’d seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, ‘Oh, random fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!’ or 'Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!’
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Dissecting people when they were still alive tended to be a priestly occupation; they thought mankind had been created by some sort of divine being and wanted to have a closer look at His handiwork.
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
If the Creator had said, ‘Let there be light’ in Ankh-Morpork, he’d have got no further because of all the people saying 'What colour?’
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Teppic knew that Dios had hard words to say about the Ephebians for having gods that looked just like people. If the gods looked just like everyone else, he used to say, how would people know how to treat them?
Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
‘It seems that I am favouring myself today,’ said Fate.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
[Io] had little involvement with individual humans. He generally looked after thunder and lightning, so from his point of view the only purpose of humanity was to get wet or, in occasional cases, charred.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
Creators aren’t gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It’s men that make gods. This explains a lot.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
He knew you got inscriptions in tombs, although he was never sure who it was who was supposed to read them. The gods, possibly, although surely they knew everything already? He’d never considered that they’d cluster round and say things like, ‘Gosh, “Dearly Beloved” was he? I never knew that.’
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times