Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one’s feelings.
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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.
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.