Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• 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

• True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Desire, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

• Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Thinking, Knowing, Charity

  "On the Divine Love; On the Divine Wisdom: A Translation of Unpublished Manuscripts".

• The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Religion, Church

  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.

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  Love, Compassion, Together

• Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

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  Office, Acting, Employment

  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

• Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Charity, Transactions

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1875). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.243

• Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Mean, Compassion

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