156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.

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.

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

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

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

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

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.