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• Love is the life of humanity.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Life, Love Is

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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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• The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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  Love, Heaven, Faith And Love

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

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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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• 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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• Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.

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  Angel, Unique, Essence

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

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  Truth

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

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  Men, Heaven, Doe

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• No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

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  Character, Mirrors, Infinity

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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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• 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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• Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

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  Acting, Doing Good

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

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• The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

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  Philosophy, Blindness, Delusion

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• We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

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  Feelings, Way, Spirit

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.79, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

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  Heaven, Young, Grows

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1853). “Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the “preface to the first English edition” of this work, by T. Hartley”, p.218

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

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  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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