The fact that we experience something is not what matters; whom and what we experience is alone decisive. Who God is and what He wills and does should become so great and exclusive that through it we forget the experience itself, that is, ourselves and our experience, and lose sight of it completely. The greatest experience completely reveals our own insignificance.
- Eberhard Arnold
September 22,2026
- Eberhard ArnoldWhen the day of judgment masses the clouds closer and closer, we must be prepared to go the way of Jesus’ cross with a mind completely at peace. Just as perfect love was once revealed in the death of Jesus, when he was judged, so too the Church of Christ must still have added to it what is still lacking of Christ’s suffering. We have to go still deeper into the willing acceptance of the cross and death, and only when we are ready for this can we ask God to intervene and make history.
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February 12,2026
The light shines on every human being that comes to this world. But only he who accepts it completely, and only as long as he accepts it completely, will receive power, strength and tasks.
- Eberhard Arnold
February 11,2026
And now I must tell you about the sun. The sun shines. He sends forth his beams and gives warmth. He awakens and strengthens life. Should he disappear, everything would suddenly be dead, really dead! But it is not one and the same thing whether the sun shines on a rock or on a flower. Certainly the sun has also awakened life from rocks. In hearts of stone that will not be called to life, the light of God works in a different way than in a heart that receives the light.
- Eberhard Arnold
