Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Emanuel Swedenborg on Wise Famous 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.
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.
If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.
Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.
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.
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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.
Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.