Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  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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• 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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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Trust, God, Faith

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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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• 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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• Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  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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• Love comes into being through useful service to others.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Moving, Matter, Divine

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Alive, Body, Spirit

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

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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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• A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Kindness, Worship, Divine

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

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• We are, because God is.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.921, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Understanding, Beneficial

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• Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Spirit

  "Arcana Coelestia ('Heavenly Secrets')". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John F. Potts, No. 1683, www.sacred-texts.com. 1910.

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• He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Punishment, Evil

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Summer, Spiritual, Tree

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Understanding, Shapes, Goodness

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Feelings

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

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

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