World Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

— Albert Schweitzer

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

— Albert Schweitzer

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

— Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

— Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself…

— Albert Schweitzer

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there…

— Albert Schweitzer

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of…

— Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become…

— Albert Schweitzer

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that…

— Albert Schweitzer

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to…

— Albert Schweitzer

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in…

— Albert Schweitzer

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

— Albert Schweitzer

Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This…

— Albert Schweitzer

What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we…

— Albert Schweitzer

Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from…

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You…

— Albert Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.…

— Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need…

— Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and…

— Albert Schweitzer

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept…

— Albert Schweitzer

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to…

— Albert Schweitzer

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies…

— Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

— Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our…

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Albert Schweitzer

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

— Albert Schweitzer

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which…

— Albert Schweitzer

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there…

— Albert Schweitzer

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of…

— Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a…

— Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by…

— Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of…

— Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that…

— Albert Schweitzer