August 06,2026

True community of marriage can move only from unity of spirit through the emotional into the physical. It can live, therefore, only in faithfulness, only and solely in steadfast, everlasting unity. This is possible only under the rulership of the Spirit. Only out of this can physical purity be desired. Only when the emotions are ruled by the Spirit can freeing and purification become reality.

- Eberhard Arnold On the Struggle of Young People in the Problem of Love
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God’s Word falls into the hearts of mortal and erring men, to pervade them from the very roots with the divine Spirit and the Christian life.

Only the spirit of the perfect life has the power to overcome death.

- Eberhard Arnold
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Every awakening of humankind's collective conscience is of deep significance. There is such a thing as a world conscience, the conscience of humanity. It rises up against war and bloodshed, against mammonism and social injustice, against violence of any kind.

- Eberhard Arnold, April 1919
February 03,2026

As educators, you need the daily leading of the spirit of light which immediately recognizes, attacks and does away with all darkening elements, even before they can come to rule over the little sensitive souls.

- Eberhard Arnold