Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
Inventor
Mathematician
Mystic
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
Theologian
Writer
Sthlm
Emanuel Swedenborg
Intending
Loving
Anyone
Acting
Really
Good

More quotes by Emanuel Swedenborg

Image
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Image
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.
Emanuel Swedenborg