Quotes from Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
- Albert Schweitzer
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
- Albert Schweitzer
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.
- Albert Schweitzer