Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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• Love is the life of humanity.
• A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
• Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ…
• It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as…
• And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and…
• To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to…
• For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as…
• So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but…
• Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.
• Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his…
• One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
• The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
• It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is…
• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or…
• The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
• This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
• Love comes into being through useful service to others.
• People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they…
• The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
• Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

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