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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Prayer
Help
Helping
Love
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Hymns
Distress
Cry
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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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.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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