Quotes from Emanuel Swedenborg

All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.

But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

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.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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

Love is the life of humanity.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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.

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

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

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

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

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.

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.