Every heart that is filled with God’s goodness reveals Christ’s humility and the patience of His love.
- Eberhard Arnold
- Eberhard Arnold, January 1920 From an EssayJustice and love demand that everyone take part in simple practical work with a spade, hatchet, or rake. Everyone should be ready to devote a few hours every day to this practical work; those who have done purely mental work till now will feel its humanizing effect especially. In this way it will be possible for each person’s unique gifts to be kindled. The light that flickers within each heart will then exhibit its once-hidden glow in scholarly research or in music, in expressive words, or in the craftsman’s art in wood, stone, or paint…such work will reveal the joy in life that is in each person. Only death knows idleness and tedium. Where there is life, the mind’s creative will remains alert and comes to expression in the service of the whole.
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The wise men from the Orient land had heard the Word speaking within them, and seen it shining without; and so they came to the Christ who was not born yet, though He was already born in their hearts.
- Eberhard Arnold
The testimony of my life is always only for the One through whom we live and have all things. This testimony, however, requires unity with the Church of Christ.
- Eberhard Arnold