Quotes from Albert Schweitzer
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
- Albert Schweitzer
The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer