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Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg (/ˈswiːdənˌbɔːrɡ/; Swedish pronunciation (help·info); born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, scientist, philosopher, revelator and mystic who inspired Swedenborgianism. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

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

Goodness, Love, Love Is, Married, Truth, Wisdom

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Goodness, Shapes, Truth, Understanding

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.

Angel, Man, Men, Sometimes, Thousand, Times

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.

Character, Infinity, Mirrors, Variety

Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.

Angel, Heaven, Holy, Race, Spiritual, Truth

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

According, Angelic, Happiness, Service

Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes. ' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

Aside, Attitude, Fences, Mean, Unlocking, Wall

The sky is an enormous man.

Enormous, Man, Men, Sky

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

Benefits, God, His Love, Inspire, Love, Reason

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

Doe, Know, Knows, Love Is, Man, Men

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

Heaven, Lived, Place, Religion, Wells

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

Charity, Knowing, Thinking

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor. . . for through the assistance which he renders he. . . supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Doe, Evil, Mean, Neighbor, Supplies, Villain

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Heaven, High, Located, Love Is, Might, Person

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Distinct, Earth, Heaven, Inner, Outer, Self

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

Doe, Evil, Good, Nothing, Persons, Resist

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Doe, External, Kindness, Life, Prayer, Worship

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Acting, Doing Good, Good, Intending, See

Love is the life of humanity.

Humanity, Life, Love, Love Is

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

Feeling, Feelings, Spirit, Spirits, Way

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