If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.
Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.
While every new fantasy author is hailed as unique, new, and different, Brandon Sanderson's ELANTRIS does indeed provide an absorbing adventure in a unique, different, and well-thought-out fantasy world, with a few nifty twists as well.
To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.