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

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  Prayer, Kindness, Doe

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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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• 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.

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  People, Evil, And Love

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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.

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  Love Is, Heaven, Might

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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.

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  Love Is, Our Love, Determine

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

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  Single Mom, New Beginnings, Understanding

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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.

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  Evil, Doe, Persons

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

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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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• 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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  Inspire, Benefits, His Love

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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

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  Humans, Conscience, God's Presence

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• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

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

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• 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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  Wall, Attitude, Mean

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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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• Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

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  Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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• Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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  Service To Others

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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.

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  Moving, Matter, Divine

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• 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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  Heaven, Age, Transition

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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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• All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

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  Angel, Heaven, Feelings

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• 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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  Summer, Spiritual, Tree

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

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  May, Return, Creation

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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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• The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

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  God, Essence, Glory

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10

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