Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

What is true is true, and what is false is false ...

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

Adultery is an image of hell.

Love is the life of humanity.

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

We are, because God is.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

The sky is an enormous man.

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true
as much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Man knows that love is, but not what it is.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.