156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.