Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

— Emanuel Swedenborg

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly;…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life,…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return.…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

— Emanuel Swedenborg