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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
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 activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
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Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
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All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.
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For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
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Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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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.
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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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