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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.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love
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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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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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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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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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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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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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Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
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