Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
Emanuel SwedenborgSacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.
Emanuel SwedenborgAnyone 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.
Emanuel SwedenborgA person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
Emanuel Swedenborg