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 is loving. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
