Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Heaven, Might

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• 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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  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Prayer, Kindness, Doe

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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Humans, Conscience, God's Presence

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Single Mom, New Beginnings, Understanding

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• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Moving, Matter, Divine

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• People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  People, Evil, And Love

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Real, Heaven, World

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• Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

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  Trust, God, Faith

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• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Our Love, Determine

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

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  Alive, Body, Spirit

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole (1985). “A view from within: a compendium of Swedenborg's theological thought”

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• Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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  Service To Others

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• Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310

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• 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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  Life, Understanding, Beneficial

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• 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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  Spiritual, Self, Heaven

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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• 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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  Good Life, Heaven, May

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.336, The Swedenborg Foundation

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Desire, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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• 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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  Love Is, Essence, Joy

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• 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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Inspire, Benefits, His Love

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• The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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  Love, Heaven, Faith And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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• The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

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  Spirit, Hell, Lord

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• A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Evil, Doe, Persons

  "Apocalypse Explained". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1180, www.sacred-texts.com. 1911.

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• Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

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  Understanding, Shapes, Goodness

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• 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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  Angel, Talking, Inspire

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