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A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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