“Man 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.”
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Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is renowned for his contributions to vascular suturing and organ transplantation. more
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