The silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. “O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!” shouted the photographers. “Stand over ...

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True peace calls for reverence for life. No society can live in peace with itself, or with the world, without a full awareness of the worth and dignity of every human person and of the sacredness of ...

“Reverence for Life” is a phrase from Dr. Albert Schweitzer and it became his axiom for living. He said, “Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. What we call love is in ...

Reverence for life affords us a fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil. So I ...

Albert Schweitzer was, by all accounts, one of the great heroes of the 20th century. A talented musician and theologian, Schweitzer attended medical school in his 30s, giving up a much-admired ...

The rabbis established the fundamental principle of reverence for life and insisted that even evil people be punished with decency and dignity. In degrading terrorists and criminals, Ben-Gvir is ...

Albert Schweitzer was nine decades old when he died, a fitting age for a life so worthy, and a span sufficiently protracted beyond his main achievements that he himself had heard all possible praise ...

When Danny Bader was 28 years old, he nearly died. It made him stop, think and evaluate his life. He says you can do this too, but you don’t need to wait for a traumatic incident to get you there!

America has entertained briefly on his first visit to its shores one of the world's foremost if hitherto little known physicians. Albert Schweitzer, now nearly seventy-five years of age, the son of an ...