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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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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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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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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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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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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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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
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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 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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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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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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Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
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All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.
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What is true is true, and what is false is false.
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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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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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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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