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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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
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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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We are, because God is.
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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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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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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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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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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
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