Emanuel Swedenborg famous quotes

03-22-2025

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 In The Lord #Lord #Ends
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
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Life #Spiritual #Fire
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
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.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Angel #Talking #Inspire
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Spiritual #Angel #Race
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
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Kindness #Worship #Divine
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.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Heaven #Age #Transition
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Self #Heaven #Earth
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Angel #Order #Long
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Understanding #Shapes #Goodness
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
A heavenly society is a harmony of many.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Harmony #Heavenly
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
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.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Spiritual #Self #Heaven
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Service To Others
Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Thinking #Knowing #Charity
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Good Life #Heaven #May
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.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Love Is #Essence #Joy
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
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.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Acting #Doing Good
Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Charity
Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Life #Men #Organs
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Desire #Charity #Recompense

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