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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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• No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Character, Mirrors, Infinity

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• Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Good Night, Spiritual, Men

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• A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Evil, Doe, Persons

  "Apocalypse Explained". Book by Emanuel Swedenborg, translated by John Whitehead, No. 1180, www.sacred-texts.com. 1911.

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• 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

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• Love is the life of humanity.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Life, Love Is

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• 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

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• He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Punishment, Evil

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1853). “The future life”, p.212

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• 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

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• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Acting, Doing Good

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

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• We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Feelings, Way, Spirit

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.79, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Heaven, Doe

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• A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Kindness, Worship, Divine

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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• We are, because God is.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.921, Simon and Schuster

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

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Heaven, Wells

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• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Talking, Inspire

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• God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Inspire, Benefits, His Love

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• The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Essence, Joy

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love, Opportunity, Reality

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1867). “Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758”, p.323

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• 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

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• What is true is true, and what is false is false.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Truth

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• 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

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• 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

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• The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Philosophy, Blindness, Delusion

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• Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Men, Organs

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1781). “True Christian religion: containing the universal theology of the New Church: now first tr. [by J. Clowes].”, p.131

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