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Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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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.
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Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.
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Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it and once we are released from the body we join them.
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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.
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Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
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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.
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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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We are, because God is.
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