Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own - Emanuel Swedenborg
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them. - Emanuel Swedenborg
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith. - Emanuel Swedenborg
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
Love is the life of humanity. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. - Emanuel Swedenborg
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world. - Emanuel Swedenborg
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. - Emanuel Swedenborg
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. - Emanuel Swedenborg
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 - Emanuel Swedenborg
The sky is an enormous man. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Conscience is God's presence in man. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end. - Emanuel Swedenborg