Emanuel Swedenborg quotes

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Conscience is God's presence in humans. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
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. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg