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Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Best Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
  3. Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
  4. Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
  5. Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
  6. Love comes into being through useful service to others.
  7. People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.
  8. True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
  9. What is true is true, and what is false is false...
  10. He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.