August 06,2026

True community of marriage can move only from unity of spirit through the emotional into the physical. It can live, therefore, only in faithfulness, only and solely in steadfast, everlasting unity. This is possible only under the rulership of the Spirit. Only out of this can physical purity be desired. Only when the emotions are ruled by the Spirit can freeing and purification become reality.

- Eberhard Arnold On the Struggle of Young People in the Problem of Love
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Jesus has kindled in mankind the rulership of His peace from the other world.

- Eberhard Arnold
May 21,2026

The City-Church of God lives only in the pure air of its eternal hill.

- Eberhard Arnold
May 20,2026

The Pentecostal spring of the early Christian Church stands in the strongest contrast to the icily rigid Christianity of our day. Everyone feels that there a fresher wind blows and purer water springs, that there a stronger power and a more glowing warmth hold sway than is the case today among those who call themselves Christians.

- Eberhard Arnold