A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.
Emanuel SwedenborgCharity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.
Emanuel SwedenborgThat 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.
Emanuel SwedenborgWorship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
Emanuel SwedenborgMen live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.
Emanuel Swedenborg