Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Alexis CarrelPrayer 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.
Alexis Carrel...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
Alexis CarrelThe most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
Alexis CarrelMan offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.
Alexis Carrel