Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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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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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 are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

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Angel, People, Spirit

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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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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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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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Conscience is God's presence in humans.

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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.

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Single Mom, New Beginnings, Understanding

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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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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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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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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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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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Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Angel, Heaven, Body

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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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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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Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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Service To Others

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Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

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Understanding, Shapes, Goodness

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

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Desire, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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

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Punishment, Evil

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

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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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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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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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Born: January 29, 1688
Died: March 29, 1772
Occupation: Scientist
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