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Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Emanuel Swedenborg quotes

Swedish Scientist January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. Emanuel Swedenborg
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. Emanuel Swedenborg
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another..."
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is..."
Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763) Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His..."
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. Emanuel Swedenborg
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. Emanuel Swedenborg
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. Emanuel Swedenborg
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
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things,..."
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. Emanuel Swedenborg
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. Emanuel Swedenborg
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. Emanuel Swedenborg
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. Emanuel Swedenborg

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