The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own. — 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
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the… — 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
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and… — 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
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life,… — 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
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
