Quote

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

Alexis Carrel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Links
Motive
Pray
Praying
Power
Inexhaustible
Link

More quotes by Alexis Carrel

Image
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
Image
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
Image
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
Alexis Carrel
Image
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
Alexis Carrel
Image
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
Alexis Carrel
Image
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
Alexis Carrel
Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
Alexis Carrel
Image
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel
Image
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
Alexis Carrel
Image
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel
Image
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
Alexis Carrel