Ben Carson Quotes

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Being religious and spiritual makes me feel good.

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

Religion was very influential because when it got really bad, and you don't know who to turn to, but I turned to God and was praying and meditating, that really helped.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I'm a spiritual person.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.