Best Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

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#7. Adultery is an image of hell.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. We are, because God is.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

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#15. 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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#16. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

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

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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

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

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#30. The sky is an enormous man.

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