“We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.” — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. — 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
Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are… — 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… — 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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return.… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the world it is little comprehended what love is; and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended… — 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
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties… — 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
