Charles Bukowski Quotes

All the drama you see about Christianity or the Catholic religion? People are seeing through that, and there are really authentic people out there with faith.

Guru Nanak Dev lives in our hearts. He is our common legacy. He is the guiding light for the entire humanity.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

I know a lot less about God, but the things I know about God, I know a whole lot more, for sure.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.