Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together. Emanuel Swedenborg More Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg More Quotes From Emanuel Swedenborg 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 feelings heaven Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever. Emanuel Swedenborg rising mind forever We are, because God is. Emanuel Swedenborg For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. Emanuel Swedenborg spiritual natural letters One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. Emanuel Swedenborg distance self spiritual 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 self spiritual heaven It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. Emanuel Swedenborg truth character men This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world. Emanuel Swedenborg real heaven world Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding. Emanuel Swedenborg angel unique essence 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 essence joy love-is If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything. Emanuel Swedenborg married goodness love-is Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much Emanuel Swedenborg quality doe men Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity. Emanuel Swedenborg and-love men believe Love is the life of humanity. Emanuel Swedenborg love-is love life 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 body heaven The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. Emanuel Swedenborg faith-and-love love heaven The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him. Emanuel Swedenborg creation return may 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 evil men long A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. Emanuel Swedenborg spiritual men death The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. Emanuel Swedenborg glory essence god
