Love Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is the life of humanity.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false...

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.”

— Emanuel Swedenborg

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

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

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“It is important to note, however, that these two loves can be more prevalent among commoners than among the great; more prevalent…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“There are two loves that have been deeply rooted in the human race for a long time now: love for dominating everyone,…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“Goodwill has something in common with each of these categories of love, because goodwill is by definition a love for usefulness of…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this…

— Emanuel Swedenborg