-
Albert Schweitzer Quotes(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg/205px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-D0116-0041-019%2C_Albert_Schweitzer.jpg)
A Franco-German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, in the German Empire. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus Christ who expected and predicted the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung).Here are some famous quotes by Albert Schweitzer.
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee319/CAPSEC/arrow-down.gif)
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
-
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
-
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.
-
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
-
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
-
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
-
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
-
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.
-
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
-
As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
-
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.v
-
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
-
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.
-
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
-
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.
-
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
-
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.
-
In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-
We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.