Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes about Life

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Life, Understanding, Beneficial

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Love, Life, Spiritual

Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Love, Life, Love Is

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

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Life, Religion, Church

Emanuel Swedenborg (1852). “Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen”, p.383, Library of Alexandria