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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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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Personal
Audacious
Undertaking
Undertakings
Entirely
Search
Dare
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Adventure

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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.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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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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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
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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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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.
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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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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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