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Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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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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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
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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.
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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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For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
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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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Love is the life of humanity.
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Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
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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.
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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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