Swedenborg Quotes
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Swedenborg Quotes & Sayings
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Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
What is true is true, and what is false is false ...
— Emanuel Swedenborg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
A heavenly society is a harmony of many.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Adultery is an image of hell.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is the life of humanity.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Conscience is God's presence in humans.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
We are, because God is.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
If a thing loves, it is infinite.(Annotations to Swedenborg) — William Blake
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The sky is an enormous man.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Man knows that love is, but not what it is.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
A person who knows all that is good and all that is trueas much as can be known
but does not resist evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, muchless is he acquainted with its nature and quality. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
