Swedenborg Quotes

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. - Emanuel Swedenborg

What is true is true, and what is false is false... - Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. - Emanuel Swedenborg

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

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. - Emanuel Swedenborg

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. - Emanuel Swedenborg

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. - Emanuel Swedenborg

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. - Emanuel Swedenborg

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. - Emanuel Swedenborg

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