“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!”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875-1965)
“At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 -1965)
“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.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 -1965)
“There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 -1965)
“Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)
“Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.”
Albert Schweitzer (Theologian, Philosopher 1875 – 1965)