156 Quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion....

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.