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What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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Aim for service and success will follow!
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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.
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Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other 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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The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
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The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
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All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
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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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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
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