The believing church of Jesus Christ, in contrast to Buddhism and Buddhist-oriented Christianity, is and remains so far turned toward the world that the whole earth and all peoples may be won for the kingdom of God. God’s loving heart and action are turned toward the world! The church lives for the kingdom of God, that justice, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit may be brought near in her and made actual on earth. In the present age all this takes place on earth through the church whose citizenship and politics belong only to the future kingdom of God, which in the new age will come down from heaven to the whole earth.

- Eberhard Arnold

We stand now confronting this great hour – a most insignificant group of people, so small and so lacking in talent that we cannot even be thrown into the scales against the present events. We are less than a gnat on an elephant, less than a grain of sand on the seashore. And yet our faith tells us that this does not matter. For it is not that we have something to say, that we have something to bring into the world. But that which is planted within us must be said and brought to the whole world.

- Eberhard Arnold

The earth is now to be reconquered for God by the throne of God. The prince of the earth, cast down from heaven, shall be removed even from the earth. Until this happens, a city of light has been created upon this darkened earth by God through the pouring out of the Holy Spirit: the new creation of the love of Christ, the holy church, the city on the hill as the light of the darkened world.

- Eberhard Arnold