By Eberhard Arnold
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Let not the voiced destruction and the tumult urge to a lesser prize your turning mind; keep faith with beauty now, and in the ending stars you may find. Jane Tyson Clement, No One Can Stem the Tide It is a paradox that the government, which is meant to suppress evil, by its very nature uses violence and thus is a beast from the abyss (Rev. 11:7). If I may say something very bold, I would put it like this: God controls the hell of human crimes with an infernal machine, the State. ” Such a resolve commands respect.
Beg for it. The whole world will yet be renewed through the almighty power of God. Christoph Blumhardt, Action in Waiting In spite of the fact that in history God has appointed a bloody, diplomatic world government anchored in the right to property, God wants only one thing in the end: love without violence, freedom from all possessions and property rights, simple truthfulness and brotherly justice, community of all people without self-interest and property—that is, the kingdom and the church. Eberhard Arnold, Innerland We are not made of light.
The law courts of the State must bring evil to account; the church of Jesus Christ must repay evil with good. The authorities that sit in judgment must hate and perse cute the enemies of their order; the church of Christ must love them. Eberhard Arnold, Innerland emily, 23: This poem speaks of sorrow, and compares it to an icy frost that threatens the harvest. I have felt such sorrow in these days, and I have won dered how to hold it or rearrange it so that it doesn’t press so deeply. Harvest I shall believe in sorrow when it comes like the first down-wandering of snow, laying its drift of shadow on my heart, hugging against the hedges of my soul, gathering on the lintel of my door.