When poets describe their experience of the powers that move in their inmost hearts, then they speak about longing. If we allow only a few rays of hope from the poets to work upon us, we will be deeply moved by the indissoluble connection between mankind and longing. Even the smallest selection of the poetic outpouring of human longing will confront us with their deepest content: the longing for God and for unity with God. At the deepest level, they have recognized that the essence of all longing is the cry of the soul to God.

- Eberhard Arnold, November 1918 From an Essay
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When the soul is set on fire by the Holy Spirit it triumphs in the body; a great fire of new life arises in it.

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