Emanuel Swedenborg
Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.Collection: Love Is
Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.Collection: Thinking
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.Collection: Self
All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.Collection: Love
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.Collection: Angel
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.Collection: Happiness
Man 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 themCollection: Angel
Adultery is an image of hell.Collection: Adultery
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.Collection: Truth
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evilCollection: Men
What is true is true, and what is false is false.Collection: Truth
Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.Collection: Angel
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.Collection: Shining
Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.Collection: Forever
Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.Collection: Justice
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.Collection: Self