Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — 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
Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. — 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