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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

Alexis Carrel

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
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Learn
Young
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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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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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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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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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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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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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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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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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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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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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