If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“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
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust. — 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
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love — 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… — 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
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from… — 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 Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such… — 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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this… — 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… — 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
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed… — 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… — 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
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“Goodwill has something in common with each of these categories of love, because goodwill is by definition a love for usefulness of… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“There are two loves that have been deeply rooted in the human race for a long time now: love for dominating everyone,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels… — 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… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763) — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
“It is important to note, however, that these two loves can be more prevalent among commoners than among the great; more prevalent… — 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
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