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God Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
- The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
- The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
- The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our…
- At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
- Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up…
- It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience…
- There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
- At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
- The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
- He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
- We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things,…
- Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our…
- Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi