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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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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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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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He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.
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So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.
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Conscience is God's presence in humans.
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.
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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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