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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Religion
Peace
Spiritual
Light
Men
Ineffable
Brings
Inner
Strength

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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
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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.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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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.
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