Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Cheating, Taken, Sunday

• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Strength, Spiritual

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

• The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Soul, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.81, 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

• Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Soul, Torn Apart, Unfaithful

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.84, Ardent Media

• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  What Matters, Temptation, Healthy

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

• I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.12, Open Road Media

• Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Soul, Suffering, Your Soul

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

• Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Soul, Matter

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.125, Ardent Media

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