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When the Fire Goes Out

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  • Sep 19, 2025

The missionary doctor Albert Schweitzer wrote in his memoir, “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

Albert Schweitzer, Trans. C. T. Campion,  Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, (George Allen & Unwin. 1924).