Alexis Carrel
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.Collection: Prayer
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.Collection: Quality
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.Collection: Cancer
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not knowCollection: Men
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.Collection: Adventure
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.Collection: Men
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.Collection: Strong
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.Collection: Effort
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.Collection: Links
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.Collection: Dark
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.Collection: Believe
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.Collection: Distance
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.Collection: Fighting
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.Collection: Science
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptorCollection: Motivational