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Albert Schweitzer Quotes | Quotes said by Albert Schweitzer

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #1

    Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.


  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #2

    A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #3

    A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #4

    As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #5

    At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #6

    By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #7

    Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #8

    Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #9

    Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #10

    Example is leadership.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #11

    Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #12

    For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #13

    Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #14

    He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #15

    I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #16

    I 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 #17

    I 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 #18

    If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #19

    In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #20

    In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #21

    It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #22

    Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #23

    Just 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 #24

    Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #25

    Man 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 #26

    Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #27

    Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #28

    Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #29

    O heavenly Father,
    protect and bless all things
    that have breath: guard them
    from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

  • Albert Schweitzer Quote #30

    One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

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