Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg; born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 January 1688
CountrySweden
love-is our-love determine
Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.
love-is heaven might
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.
attitude wall mean
Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.
good-night spiritual men
Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.
love-is men doe
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.
kindness prayer doe
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
love-is essence joy
The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.
spiritual mean house
If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.
moving matter divine
For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.
acting doing-good
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.
single-mom new-beginnings understanding
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
relate
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
spiritual self heaven
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
god essence glory
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.