Quotes from Dr. Alexis Carrel

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

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

Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.

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.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.