Top 100 Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

#1. We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.

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#2. The sky is an enormous man.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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#6. Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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

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#8. In the Christian world ... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

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#9. The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

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

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

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#15. That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

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#16. The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

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#17. Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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 ...

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#20. In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions

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#21. We are, because God is.

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#22. The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Adultery is an image of hell.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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 true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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#34. All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

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#35. A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

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#36. Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

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

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#38. 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.

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#39. This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

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

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

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#42. 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

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#43. God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

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#44. Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

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#45. Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'.

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

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

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

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

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

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#51. I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.

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#52. 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.

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#53. 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 are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

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#54. A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

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#55. The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

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

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#57. 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.

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#58. 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.

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#59. for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine.

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

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#61. Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

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

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#63. The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

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

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

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#66. True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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#67. That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

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#68. 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 of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

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

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#70. He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

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#71. A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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#72. 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.

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#73. Love is the life of humanity.

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#74. The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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#75. 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.

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

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#77. Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

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#78. Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.

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#79. Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

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#80. Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

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#81. 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.

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#82. One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

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#83. 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.

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

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#85. True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.

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#86. Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

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#87. What is true is true, and what is false is false ...

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#88. 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.

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#89. Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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#92. The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

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#93. Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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#96. 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.

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#97. 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.

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#98. All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

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#99. Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

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#100. Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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