Eberhard Arnold

Why We Live in Community

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  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Our Lord’s victory over death, the victory of love over death on the cross, seeks to be manifested in a very concrete form on earth in the creation of community
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    People tear themselves away from home, parents, and career for the sake of marriage; for the sake of wife and child they risk their lives. In the same way it is necessary to break away and sacrifice everything for the sake of our calling to this way. Our witness to voluntary community of goods and work, to a life of peace and love, will have meaning only when we throw our entire life and livelihood into it
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    An organism becomes a unit through the unity of consciousness brought about by the spirit that animates it. It is the same in a believing community. The future unity of humankind, when God alone will rule, is ensured by the Holy Spirit
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Before our human service can become divine service, however, we must recognize how small and limited it is in the face of the whole.
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Wherever people see their task as something special in itself, they will go astray.
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Yet it is of decisive importance that any special task lead only to Christ
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Community of goods presupposes the willingness of each individual member to turn over ­unconditionally to the common household whatever he acquires in the way of income or property, large or small. Yet even the community does not regard itself as the corporate owner of its inventory and enterprises. Rather, it acts as a trustee of the assets it holds for the common good of all, and for this reason it keeps its door open to all. By the same token it requires for its decision-making undisturbed unanimity in the Spirit
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    Community life is like martyrdom by fire: it means the daily sacrifice of all our strength and all our rights, all the claims we commonly make on life and assume to be justified. In the symbol of fire the individual logs burn away so that, united, its glowing flames send out warmth and light again and again into the land.
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    The early Christians dedicated themselves as much to people’s outward needs as to their inner ones. Jesus brought life
  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted8 years ago
    We must live in community because God wants us to respond to the unclear longings of our time with a clear answer of faith
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