All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share
