"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."

-- Alexis Carrel

#Prayer Quotes #Reality Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!”

Source : William Beveridge (1847). “Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII”, p.344
“The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.”

Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”
“Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”
“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.”
“There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.”
“The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.”
“Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.”

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