Whoever has discerned in the revolutionary movements the awakening of conscience in the sense of the Sermon on the Mount and in the sense of the future kingdom of God fights all the more sharply against the demonic powers of impurity, the murder spirit, lying polemics, and the greed for possession and power in socialism and communism. But it is of great importance that just in this decisive struggle Christians discern the awakening for God, and that they witness to Christ in the midst of the socialist, pacifist and communist movements of conscience.

- Eberhard Arnold

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