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Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes about Love

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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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

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

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Love, Life, Love Is

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

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

Emanuel Swedenborg
Love, Trust, Unions

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
Love, Happiness, Peace
Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Love, Compassion, Together

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Love, Spiritual, Angel
Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol I: Heaven and Hell; Divine Love and Wisdom; Divine Providence”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Love, Mean, Compassion

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