Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.
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 is loving.
Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
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 to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.
Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.