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Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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 Quotes) The quality of the Lord’s church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) One’s distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one’s self-love  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) No one’s character is completely like another’s. This infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the creator  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) I have seen a thousand times that angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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 Quotes) Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) For those who trust in the divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one’s delusion and blindness  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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 Quotes) If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) We are all spirits inwardly. This is what’s alive in the body, not the body on its own  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes) 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 Quotes) So far as the angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the lord  (Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes)
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