Enes Kanter Quotes

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

During the rests - pray.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

Each morning and night I get down on my knees and thank God for my life and ask Him to make me grateful all the time instead of just most of the time.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.