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.
Alexis CarrelThe modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
Alexis CarrelIntuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis CarrelPrayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
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