156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

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.

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.