Albert Schweitzer Quotes

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

Libraries can take the place of God.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

You have to call on the Lord to find out where he wants you, what he wants from you.