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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a French-German theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of “being in Christ” as primary and the doctrine of Justification by Faith as secondary.

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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Giving, Life, Littles, May, Remain, See

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

Doctor, Doctors, Patient, Patients, Physicians, Touch

The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.

Freedom, Live, Moving, Natural, Organization, Rights

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Animal, Deserves, Plant, Sacred, Sympathy

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Ethics, Extend, Life, Men, Regain, Universe

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Want, Midst, Life, Live

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.

Burst, Friendship, Inspirational, Motivational, People, Rekindle

There is no higher religion than human service.

Community Service, Helping, Higher, Human, Public Service, Service

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Depend, Doe, Result, Ships, True, Voyages

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

Live, Soul, Suffering, Suffers, Superficially, Your Soul

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

Good, Knowing, Littles, Truth, Truth Is

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

Gentleness, Made, May, Owe, Wells, Wisdom

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Evolution, Human, Loyalty, Peace, Step, Steps

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live. . . . The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

Cute, Destiny, Essence, Evil, Hamper, Highest

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Difficult, Difficult Things, Guidance, Prayed, Thing

In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

Attitude, Life, Original, Towards, Tragedy, World

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world. . . Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Church, Church Service, Honor, Play, World

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

Creative, Horror, Inevitably, Meaning, Spirit, Understand

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

Fear, Outcome, Outcomes, Should, Sincerely, Truth

Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?. . . We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

Color, Describe, Give, Hands, Men, Peoples

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