A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.
Emanuel SwedenborgAll 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.
Emanuel SwedenborgHe who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.
Emanuel SwedenborgThis I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
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