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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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Love is the life of humanity.
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Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
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The sky is an enormous man.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
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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.
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Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.
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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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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
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Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
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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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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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