Albert Schweitzer Quotes about Giving

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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

Albert Schweitzer

Giving, Ifs

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude, Mean, Giving

Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.41, Ardent Media

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

Albert Schweitzer

Children, Light, Giving

Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.78, Ardent Media

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

Giving, May, Littles

Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.13, Open Road Media

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Evil, Giving

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Albert Schweitzer

Laughter, Voice, Giving

Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.

Albert Schweitzer

Jesus, Giving, Heaven

Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.396, Lulu.com

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

Albert Schweitzer

Men, Giving, Needs

Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)