Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Interpretation
Strive to contribute positively to the world, no matter how small the action.
This quote by Albert Schweitzer emphasizes the importance of altruism and the need to help others, even if the contributions seem minor. It suggests that the act of doing good is a privilege in itself, encouraging individuals to seek opportunities for kindness and support without expecting any rewards in return.
In practice
In a speech about community service, you might remind the audience of the importance of helping others with small acts.
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.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
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.
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.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious._x000D_ _x000D_ Told to Valentine Bargmann.
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.
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