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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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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 means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
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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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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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In the world it is little comprehended what love is and yet it is man's very life. That this is little comprehended is evident from the common saying What is love? What it is, is not known for the reason that love is not manifest to the understanding, and the understanding is the receptacle of the light of heaven.
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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.
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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
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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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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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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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The sky is an enormous man.
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