I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“ Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
