Zinzendorf’s sayings about union with Christ are mostly brief, fervent lines that stress singular devotion to Jesus and experiential oneness with him, plus a few sacramental statements that come very close to deification language.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
### Passionate, exclusive focus on Christ
> “I have but **one passion—it is He, it is He alone.** The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”[6][8][1]
> “**I have one passion; it is Jesus, Jesus only.**”[2][9][10]
These encapsulate union with Christ as a total re‑orientation of life around the person of Jesus.
### Union experienced in the wounds and sacrament
Summarizing Zinzendorf’s Eucharistic teaching:
> “Zinzendorf called Communion the most **‘palpable’ way for Christians to experience union with Christ. ‘Then we experience that through the tormented body of Christ we are united with the divine nature and come into a condition which foreshadows something of the resurrection.’ This union with the divine occurs when the worshiper sets his mouth to his side and drinks of the blood from the wound that ever opens anew.**”[4]
Here union with Christ and even “union with the divine nature” is tied very concretely to Christ’s wounded body and blood.
### Christ living and ruling in the believer
Eberhard Arnold, echoing Moravian language of Christ-indwelling:
> “**Christ has made a home in me; He wants to live through me. All we can do now is to allow Him to gain more and more power over us so that He will be the sole power that guides our lives, the sole helm and the sole helmsman who gives us our direction.**”[3]
While not a verbatim Zinzendorf line, this distills Moravian “community of life” with Christ that Zinzendorf championed.
### Union, marriage, and sacrament
A hostile but historically informative summary of his teaching:
> “He also **taught married couples to view sexual intercourse as a sacramental act symbolizing the mystical union of the soul with Christ.**”[7]
Even here, union with Christ is the central reality being symbolized and enacted.
If you’d like, I can rephrase these into a short, sourced handout titled “Zinzendorf on Union with Christ” with one‑sentence theological glosses under each quote.
Sources
[1] The Moravian 100 Year Prayer Movement! – Revival & Reformation https://www.
[2] Quote from Count Zinzendorf – The Voice from the Wilderness http://
[3] Völlige Gemeinschaft (Complete Community) – Eberhard Arnold https://www.eberhardarnold.
[4] Adoring the Wounded Savior | The Flaming Heretic? – WordPress.com https://theflamingheretic.
[5] [PDF] Innerland – Plough https://www.plough.com/api/
[6] Spirit of Religion Kills ⋆ UNITED INTERNATIONAL MORAVIAN … https://alaskamoravian.com/
[7] Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig von (1700–1760) – Encyclopedia.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/
[8] Missions Quotes | GoCorps https://gocorps.org/content/
[9] passion | Nations House of Prayer Equipping Center http://nations-hop.org/tag/
[10] Union With Christ Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians Being Light in the … http://www.
[11] Zinzendorf Quote on Linen, Digital Download, Old-typewriter Font … https://www.etsy.com/listing/
[12] 3:12 Stepping Heavenward – Geoff Thomas Sermon Archive https://geoffthomas.org/index.
[13] A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety … https://www.psupress.org/
[14] Woman in the Nineteenth Century. | The Walden Woods Project https://www.walden.org/sub-
[15] The Project Gutenberg eBook of Woman in the Nineteenth Century … https://www.gutenberg.org/
