Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OMwas a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine and although that region had been annexed by the German Empire four years earlier, and remained a German possession until 1918, he considered himself French and wrote mostly in French...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth14 January 1875
CityKaysersberg, France
CountryGermany
inspirational spiritual nature
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
life spiritual men
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.
love life nature
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
inspirational valentines-day perseverance
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.
loyalty peace rhyming
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
leadership learning growth
Example is leadership.
spiritual yoga deep-life
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
inspirational sympathy men
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
truly-happy persons has-beens
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
leadership men able
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
share
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
jesus believe teaching
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
spiritual thinking soul
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
love knowledge-of-god foundation
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 him in our lives as Will-to-love.