Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Interpretation
Sunday serves as a vital day of rest and reflection for our souls. Without it, we risk losing our spiritual connection.
This quote emphasizes the importance of dedicating time for rest and spiritual reflection in our lives. Albert Schweitzer suggests that without a designated day of rest, like Sunday, we deprive ourselves of moments essential for nurturing our inner selves, leading to a sense of disconnection and emptiness.
In practice
In a speech about work-life balance, you might say, 'As Albert Schweitzer said, do not let Sunday be taken from you, for it is essential for our rejuvenation.'
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.
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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