Charity Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

10 Charity quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

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When generosity meets philosophy, a handful of concise observations can spark big ideas. Here, Swedenborg’s ten notes on charity distill his spiritual outlook into bite‑size wisdom, perfect for a quick pause before you act.

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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

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Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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

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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

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True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

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

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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…

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Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for…

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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…

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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.

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Adultery is an image of hell.

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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…

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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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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…

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace,…

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

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