Ben Carson: Quotes about God

Ben Carson is 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 255

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 154

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Responsible human beings must be concerned about our surroundings and what we will pass on to future generations. However, to use climate change as an excuse not to develop our God-given resources makes little sense.”

"CARSON: Expanding our energy resources serves peace" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/25/carson-energys-role-in-the-path-to-peace/, The Washington Times (March 25, 2014)

“"You do your best, we do the rest." That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 46

“Only God knows the beginning and the end.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 122

“Thanks, God, for honoring our best by giving us a miracle.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 147

“I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life.”

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 133

“God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.”

Source: America the Beautiful (2012), Ch. 13: 'What's Good about America'

“God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.”

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 20

“God doesn't make mistakes. So if I'm supposed to die, there's a very good reason for it. I'm not going to question him. I'm just going to enjoy all these beautiful things that God created.”

Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 168

“It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 244

“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 56