Emanuel Swedenborg quotes - page 3

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. View quote
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. View quote
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A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next. View quote
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Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows. View quote
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. View quote
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. View quote
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Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is. View quote
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service. (Emanuel Swedenborg)
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself. View quote
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Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way. View quote
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good. View quote
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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth. View quote
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young. View quote
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A heavenly society is a harmony of many. View quote
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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. View quote
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The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.... (Emanuel Swedenborg)
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt. View quote
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They think this is renouncing the world and living for the spirit and not for the flesh. However, the actual case is quite different, as I have learned from an abundance of experience and conversation with angels. In fact, people who renounce the world and live for the spirit in this fashion take on a mournful life for themselves, a life that is not open to heavenly joy, since our life does remain with us [after death]. No, if we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. View quote
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The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. View quote
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I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. View quote
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