Reverence for Life Quotes

“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

“True resignation consists of this: that man, feeling his subordination to the course of world events, makes his way toward inward freedom from the fate that shapes his external existence. Inward freedom gives him the strength to triumph over the difficulties of everyday life and to become a deeper and more inward person, calm, and peaceful. Resignation, therefore, is the spiritual and ethical affirmation of one’s own existence. Only he that has gone through the trial of resignation is capable of accepting the world.”
― Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After”
― Albert Schweitzer, Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century