Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes - Page 3

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

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

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.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

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.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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

Adultery is an image of hell.

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

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.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

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

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

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

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.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

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

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

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