156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

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.

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

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

Some hells present an appearance like the ruins of houses and cities after conflagrations, in which infernal spirits dwell and hide themselves. In the milder hells there is an appearance of rude huts, in some cases contiguous in the form of a city with lanes and streets.

The sky is an enormous man.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.