These quotes highlight the profound impact that matters of the divine have on the human experience, transcending fame and revealing the shared quest for understanding, purpose, and connection with something greater than ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi: “God has no religion.”
Albert Einstein: “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.”
Oprah Winfrey: “I believe that God is in all things.”
C.S. Lewis: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
Bob Marley: “My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
Mother Teresa: “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.”
Denzel Washington: “I read from the Bible every day, and I read my Daily Word.”
Ellen DeGeneres: “I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
Johnny Depp: “I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we grow older.”
Steve Jobs: “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Morgan Freeman: “I can say that I’m a believer. I believe in God.”
Will Smith: “God placed the best things in life on the other side of fear.”
Rumi (not a modern celebrity, but a renowned poet and mystic): “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Marilyn Monroe: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right.”
Tom Hanks: “I must say that I think that in this world we are in, prayer is simply good conversation with God.”
Keanu Reeves: “Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.”
Celine Dion: “I do believe in God. I do believe that, in this life, we need to serve a greater cause.”
Dolly Parton: “God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.”
Jim Carrey: “I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”
Helen Keller: “I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.”
Deepak Chopra: “God is both the creator and the creation, both the source and the destination, both the doer and the deed, and also the knower and the known.”
Anne Lamott: “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Diana Ross: “I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity.”
Billy Graham: “God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”
Eckhart Tolle: “God is not a concept in your mind. God is the highest dimension of your consciousness.”
Maya Angelou: “I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory.”
Katy Perry: “I’m very grateful for everything that has happened and I feel a sense of responsibility and stewardship of the lessons I’ve learned.”
Dalai Lama: “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
John Lennon: “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
Mae West: “I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
Rabindranath Tagore: “God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.”
“God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” – Kelly Clarkson
“God’s mercy and grace give me hope for myself and for our world.” – Billy Graham