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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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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 purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
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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.
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In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
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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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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.
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Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
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It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.
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