156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded.

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.