Dr. Alexis Carrel Quotes

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.

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

Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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