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In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
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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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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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Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.
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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
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Love is the life of humanity.
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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
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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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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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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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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
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The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.
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Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
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The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
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Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
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