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
July 30,2026
- Eberhard Arnold The Early ChristiansPeople who have been gripped by God can only look upon all transitory inequalities as a rousing incitement to the brotherhood of perfect love. The same need, indebtedness and insignificance made them all “poor”, as they liked to be called, especially in the earliest epoch, because their faith in the one God and their attitude to material goods could only be understood as poverty.
Get Daily Inspiration straight to your Inbox
More Inspiration
For Jesus alone!
- Eberhard Arnold, April 1908
So may I live
with all I have
and nothing less.
I’ll give him all,
my Lord and King –
so will my heart
find happiness.
It is well for us that at such hours the light is shining from the stable of Bethlehem, and that we are able to sense what it means that the kingdom of God was born as a little child when the time was fulfilled.
- Eberhard Arnold