478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Aim for service and success will follow!

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.