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Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.”

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Albert Schweitzer, born on January 14, 1875, and died on September 4, 1965, was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He is renowned for his missionary work in Africa. more

“How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.”

“Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.”

Mind Believe Heart Ideas Facts Passion Doubt Taught Despair Elements Uncertainty Believe In God Anguish Consolation God Exists

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.”

Firsts Reason Running Christianity Pursuit Obedience Encounters Visuals Clue

Book:Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide

Source: Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide

“Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.”

Vision Painting Committees Herds Great Vision

Author:Warren G. Bennis

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