Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.

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.

But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.