Quotes by Medical Missionary

“By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.”

“Constant Kindness can accomplish much.”

“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.”

“For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.”

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice”

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.”

“All work that is worth anything is done in faith.”

“It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.”

“The destiny of man is to be more and more human.”

“In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'”