The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. — 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
