Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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

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  Real, Heaven, World

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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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• 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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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

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  Humans, Conscience, God's Presence

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

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  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Believe, Men, And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1858). “The gospel according to Mark”, p.234

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

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  Love Is, Married, Goodness

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.59, 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

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  Inspire, Benefits, His Love

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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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• 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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  Death, Men, Heaven

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• Love is the life of humanity.

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  Love, Life, Love Is

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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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