Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Emanuel SwedenborgA man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
Emanuel SwedenborgThe essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.
Emanuel SwedenborgMan was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them
Emanuel SwedenborgEvery one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.
Emanuel Swedenborg