Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

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

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

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

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

Adultery is an image of hell.

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

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

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

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

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

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

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

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

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 do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

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 are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

The sky is an enormous man.

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

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 suffering as he does for himself in his own.

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 well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

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

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 from the Lord.

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

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

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

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

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

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.