21 Quotes by Eberhard Arnold

After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God's creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race.

You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth...

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ’must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

Whoever is gripped by God’s spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God’s love.