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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
Missionary
Music Historian
Musicologist
Organist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
Theologian
University Teacher
Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
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Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
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I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
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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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Do something good and someone might imitate it.
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Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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