Albert Schweitzer is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and is known world wide for his service to humanity. Yet, he began life in an ordinary home, with an ordinary family in a small village in the mountains.

We might well ask: What made him different?  What did he do to have far-reaching impact for good?  And what clues for living life mission can his life story reveal?

In this podcast you'll learn the story of  Albert Schweitzer's life and his journey through the 7 Laws of Life Mission.  You’ll be fascinated to see how he prepared, heard the call to life mission and executed his mission--despite the opposition of family and friends, without the financial means he needed, with years of preparation still ahead of him.

As you listen, perhaps you will find insights from Albert Schweitzer’s life that will help you see more clearly your own mission path. You may even see where you are on the path right now and what you need to do to take the next step.

Listener's Guide:

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2:07  Law 1--Love of God

4:07  Law 2--Love of Self

8.22  Law 3--Love of Truth

10:44  Law 4--Love of Humanity

21:34  Law 5--Hear the Call

39:05  Law 6--Courageously Execute

46:11  Law 7--Do it Again

Quotes from this Episode:

“When I was five years old my father began giving me music lessons on the old square piano which we had inherited from grandfather Schillinger.  He had no technical skill, but improvised charmingly.  When I was seven I surprised our schoolmistress by playing hymn tunes on the harmonium with harmonies which I supplied myself.  At eight, when my legs were hardly long enough to reach the pedals, I began to play the organ.  My passion for that instrument was inherited from my grandfather Schillinger…I was nine years old when for the first time I took the place of the organist for a service at Gunsbach.” ~Albert Schweitzer

“Three times a week, from eleven to twelve, when the morning lessons were over, I had to take the Confirmation classes for boys, which in Alsace continue for two years.  I tried hard to give them as little home work to do as possible, that the lessons might be a time of pure refreshment for heart and spirit.  I therefore used the last ten minutes for making them repeat after me, and so get to know by heart, Bible sayings and verses of hymns which they might take away from these classes to guide them throughout their lives.  The aim of my teaching was to bring home to their hearts and thoughts the great truths of the Gospel, and to make them religious in such a way that in later life they might be able to resist the temptations to irreligion which would assail them.  I tried also to awake in them a love for the Church, and a feeling of need for a solemn hour for their souls in the Sunday services.  I taught them to respect traditional doctrines, but at the same time to hold fast to the saying of St. Paul that where the spirit of Christ is, there is liberty.” ~Albert Schweitzer

“Intoxicated as I was with the delight of dealing with realities which could be determined with exactitude, I was far from any inclination to undervalue the humanities as others in a similar position often did.  On the contrary, through my study of chemistry, physics, zoology, botany, and physiology I became more than ever conscious to what an extent truth in thought is justified and necessary, side by side with the truth which is merely established by facts.  No doubt something subjective clings to the knowledge which results from a creative act of the mind.  But at the same time such knowledge is on a higher plane than the knowledge based only on the facts.” ~Albert Schweitzer

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