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The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]

Albert Schweitzer
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The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.

Albert Schweitzer, The Animal World of Albert Schweitzer
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer
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Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Brian Schweitzer
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer
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