02UndatedAs we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
04UndatedI look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very important things to me – and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
05UndatedVery little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
06UndatedI therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them throughout their lives. The aim of my teaching was to bring to their hearts and thoughts the great truths of the Gospels so religion would have meaning in their lives and give them the strength to resist the irreligious forces that might assail them. I also tried to awaken in them a love for the Church, and a desire for that hour of spiritual peace to be found in the Sunday service. I taught them to respect traditional doctrines, but at the same time to hold fast to the saying of Paul that where the spirit of Christ is, there is freedom.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
07UndatedThe interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
08UndatedThe thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
09UndatedThe thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
10UndatedWherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
11UndatedThe tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
13UndatedJust as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
14UndatedMan can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
15UndatedAnyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
16UndatedSometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
17UndatedThe only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
18UndatedA great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
19UndatedOne thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
21UndatedLife becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
23UndatedYou don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
24UndatedEven if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.Albert Schweitzer / quote ↗
