Quotes from Eberhard Arnold

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

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.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

We must live in community because we are stimulated by the same creative Spirit of unity who calls nature to unity and through whom work and culture shall become community in God.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder." - Eberhard Arnold

Enlightened persons to not allow the sultry urges of the sub-conscious mind to influence the thoughts of their soul. -They condemn selfish urges as irresponsible. And do not regard their sense of responsibility as morbid. Rather they feel that it is a sign of a spiritually healthy mind.

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.

Nowhere among the early Christians do we find the cold light of intellectual understanding that constantly analyzes and differentiates. Instead, there was the Spirit that burned within their hearts and made their souls alive. (Col. 2:8–10)

There will be no need for do's and don'ts, no need for tables of commandments or tablets of law. In this kingdom everything will be regulated by inner rebirth and inward inspiration, under the rule of Christ's spirit.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

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

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.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder