Best Swedenborg Quotes

#1. Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,
these are some of our astronomers.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

#3. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
(Annotations to Swedenborg)

William Blake

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

#6. 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'.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#7. All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#8. I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Emanuel Swedenborg

#10. 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.

Emanuel Swedenborg