Top 15 Emmanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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

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.

The sky is an enormous man.

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

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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

We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.

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.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much
less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

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

for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

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