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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

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  Humans, Conscience, God's Presence

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Angel, Heaven, Body

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

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  Understanding, Shapes, Goodness

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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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• Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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  Service To Others

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• What is true is true, and what is false is false.

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  Truth

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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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• 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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• One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

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  Spiritual, Distance, Self

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1962). “The Gist of Swedenborg”, p.91, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

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  Love, Opportunity, Reality

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1867). “Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758”, p.323

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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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