478 Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

„Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Die Welt ist nicht nur Geschehen, sondern auch Leben.

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.

The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.