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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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Albert Schweitzer Inspirational Life Spiritual Uplifting

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

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Albert Schweitzer Attributed No Source Cats Life Music

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

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Albert Schweitzer Consciousness Life Living Philosophy

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.

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Albert Schweitzer Life Truth

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.

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Albert Schweitzer Destiny Happiness Service

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

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Albert Schweitzer Happiness Sharing

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

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Albert Schweitzer Gratitude Religion Self Awareness Spirituality

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

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Albert Schweitzer Discipleship Education Parenthood

O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace.

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Albert Schweitzer Prayer Spirituality

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

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Albert Schweitzer Character Influence Leadership

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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Albert Schweitzer Compassion Ethics Peace Vegetarianism

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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Albert Schweitzer Misery Pain

The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. [Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2 by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]

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Albert Schweitzer Jesus Religion Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

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Albert Schweitzer Albert Scheweitzer Animal Rights Animals Compassion

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.

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Albert Schweitzer Abused Animals Compassion

The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.

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Albert Schweitzer Compassion Ethical Ethics Vegan Veganism

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.

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Albert Schweitzer All Creatures Animals Compassion Ethics Inspiration

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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Albert Schweitzer Ethics Suffering Vegetarianism

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

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Albert Schweitzer Body Wisdom Healing Health Intuition

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

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Albert Schweitzer Harmony Life Universe

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

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Albert Schweitzer Encouragement Goodness Inspirational Spiritual Growth

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.

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Albert Schweitzer Gratitude Help Others Wisdom

Very 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.

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Albert Schweitzer Animal Rights Animals Customs Empathy Ethics Human Rights Intentions Optimism Philosophical Thoughtfulness Tradition

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.

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Albert Schweitzer Church Gospel

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

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Albert Schweitzer Inspirational Joy Service Soul Volunteerism

The 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.

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Albert Schweitzer Ethics Humanitarian Vegan Vegetarian

Wherever 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.

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Albert Schweitzer Community Help Helping Others Helping People Humanity Needs Others Volunteer Volunteerism

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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Albert Schweitzer Hell Devil

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

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Albert Schweitzer Helping People

Even 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.

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Albert Schweitzer Helping People

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

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Albert Schweitzer Helping People

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

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Albert Schweitzer Human Relations

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

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Albert Schweitzer Morality Ethics

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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Albert Schweitzer One Day

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

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Albert Schweitzer Role Models

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

~ Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Self Reliance

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

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Albert Schweitzer Thinking Thought

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

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Albert Schweitzer Life Way Profound

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

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Albert Schweitzer Time Truth Special

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

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Albert Schweitzer Man End Lost
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