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The Light within Us
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Albert Schweitzer44 ratings, 3.86 average rating, 4 reviews
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“slavery, witch burning, torture, and all the other ancient and medieval forms of inhumanity. It was only when it experienced the influence of the thinking of the Age of Enlightenment that it was stirred into entering the struggle for humanity. The remembrance of this ought to preserve it forever from assuming any air of superiority in comparison with thought.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“Our society has also ceased to allow to all men, as such, a human value and a human dignity; many sections of the human race have become merely raw material and property in human form.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“making men less shallow and morally better by making them think. O–219”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“The essential element in Christianity as it was preached by Jesus and as it is comprehended by thought, is this, that 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.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“that the humanitarian work to be done in the world should, for its accomplishment, call us as men, not as members of any particular nation or religious body.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them.” If all of us could become what we were at fourteen, what a different place the world would be!”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“The only essential thing is that we strive to have light in ourselves. Our strivings will be recognized by others, and when people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
“O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace.”
― The Light Within Us
― The Light Within Us
