A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils,… — 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
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; 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
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is. — 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 Image
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. — 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 body we… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image