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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.
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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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The sky is an enormous man.
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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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Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
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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 union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
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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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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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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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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
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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.
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness
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Love is the life of humanity.
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