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
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
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man… — 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
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
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things… — 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
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly;… — 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
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. — 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
