The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.
Albert SchweitzerImpart 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.
Albert SchweitzerToday . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
Albert SchweitzerBach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.
Albert SchweitzerThe stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
Albert SchweitzerThe fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education.
Albert Schweitzer