Emanuel Swedenborg

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Adultery is an image of hell.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is the life of humanity.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who…

— 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

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also,…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and…

— 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

One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life,…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and…

— 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

“In the Protestant Christian world, active repentance, which is examining ourselves, recognizing and admitting to our sins, praying to the Lord, and…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“People who do not examine themselves are like people with a sickness that closes off their capillaries and therefore corrupts their blood,…

— 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

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

“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

Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

— Emanuel Swedenborg