Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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.

The sky is an enormous man.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

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.

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

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.