Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Heaven, Might

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Self, Heaven, Earth

• A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Age, Transition

• Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Body

• The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Heaven, Faith And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

• God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Self, Heaven

• If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Good Life, Heaven, May

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.336, The Swedenborg Foundation

• All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Heaven, Feelings

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Real, Heaven, World

• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Men, Heaven

• For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Heaven, Soul

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “My Essential Doctrines (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

• It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Men, Heaven

• 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

  Faith, Angel, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Distance, Self

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1962). “The Gist of Swedenborg”, p.91, Library of Alexandria

• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Race, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Angel, Light

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Taken, Angel, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Love, Happiness, Peace

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Two, Heaven

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1758). “Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.222

• In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Young, Grows

  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

• Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Wells

• First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Firsts, Depends

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell (Annotated Edition)”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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

  Two, Heaven, And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in heaven to share his delights and blessings with others; and as such is the character of all that are in the heavens it is clear how immeasurable is the delight of heaven.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Blessing, Joy, Heaven

  "Heaven and Hell". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John C. Ager, No. 399, www.sacred-texts.com. 1900.

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