Topics: Trust In The Lord, Lord, Ends, Instruments Of God, God Has A Plan

source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books
Topics: Inspirational, Life, Kindness, Love And Kindness, Inspirational Kindness
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310
Topics: Life, Spiritual, Fire, Love Is All You Need, Love Is Strong
Topics: Spiritual, Angel, Race, Conjugal, Proceeding
Topics: Heaven, Age, Transition
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
Topics: Understanding, Shapes, Goodness
Topics: Summer, Spiritual, Tree, Plants And Trees
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books
Topics: Love Is, Essence, Joy, Joy Within
Topics: Angel, Heaven, Body, Loving Person
Topics: Acting, Doing Good
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Topics: Desire, Charity, Recompense, Inspirational Charity, Charity And Giving
Topics: Life, Understanding, Beneficial
Topics: Single Mom, New Beginnings, Understanding
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole (1985). “A view from within: a compendium of Swedenborg's theological thought”
Topics: Good Night, Spiritual, Men, Moral Life
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1859). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by E. Swedenborg”, p.10
Topics: God, Essence, Glory, Love And Wisdom
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Topics: Love, Valentines Day, Giving
source: - "Apocalypse Explained". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1180, www.sacred-texts.com. 1911.
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books
Topics: Love, Heaven, Faith And Love
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1962). “The Gist of Swedenborg”, p.91, Library of Alexandria
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1867). “Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758”, p.323
Topics: Love, Opportunity, Reality
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.921, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.59, The Swedenborg Foundation
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212
Topics: Punishment, Evil
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
source: - 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
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.79, The Swedenborg Foundation
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.
source: - "Arcana Coelestia ('Heavenly Secrets')". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John F. Potts, No. 1683, www.sacred-texts.com. 1910.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
Topics: Philosophy, Blindness, Delusion
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, John Bigelow (1888). “A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg”
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36
Topics: Death, Spiritual, Men, Nevertheless
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1858). “The gospel according to Mark”, p.234
Topics: Believe, Men, And Love, Faith And Love
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1839). “The Doctrines of the New Jerusalem: Concerning the Lord, the Sacred Scriptures, the White Horse, Faith, Life. Also, the Heavenly Doctrines”
Topics: Relate
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1835). “Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom”, p.13
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
Topics: Love, Trust, Unions, Without Trust, Love Without Trust
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Arcana Coelestia, Volume 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag
Topics: Angel, Men, Done, Ancient Times
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1850). “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.33
Topics: Angel, Men, Sometimes, Human Form
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or Book of Revelations Explained”, p.45
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1841). “The Last Judgment, and the Babylon Destroyed: so that all the predictions in the Apocalypse are at this day fulfilled ... Translated from the Latin, etc. (A new translation.)”, p.38
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.222
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1873). “Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning with the Book of Genesis Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”, p.9
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Topics: Mirrors, Different, Sacred Scripture
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell (Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg, Glen Michael Cooper, Stuart Shotwell (2006). “True Christianity, Containing a Comprehensive Theology of the New Church that was Predicted by the Lord in Daniel 7:13-14 and Revelation 21:1, 2: sections 1-462”
source: - "Divine Love". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1, www.sacred-texts.com. 1914.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Love Is, Men, He Man, Love And Wisdom
source: - "Heaven and Hell". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John C. Ager, No. 399, www.sacred-texts.com. 1900.
Topics: Angel, Men, Heaven, Angels On Earth
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1852). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.383, Library of Alexandria
Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
Topics: Love, Compassion, Together
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Death, Spiritual, Men, World Life
Topics: Love, Mean, Compassion, Mean Love
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Christian, Men, Church, Christian Church
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1855). “The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin”, p.452
Topics: Office, Acting, Employment
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”
Topics: Animal, Blood, Brain, Animal Spirits
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Men, Evil, Separation, Visitation
Topics: Opportunity, Reality, May
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.556, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Love, Spiritual, Angel, Love And Wisdom
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “My Essential Doctrines (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol III: Last Judgment; Last Judgment Continued; Last Judgment Posthumous”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.15
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (1857). “Miscellaneous Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.476
Topics: Destruction, Visitation
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
source: - Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Spiritual, Men, Long, Natural World