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1. "Love comes into being through useful service to others." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
2. "Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
3. "True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
4. "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 them." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
5. "He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
6. "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 evil." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
7. "But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
8. "This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
9. "That 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 Swedenborg
10. "For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
11. "In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
12. "In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
13. "I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
14. "That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
15. "First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
16. "For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
17. "In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
18. "The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
19. "Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
20. "And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
21. "The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
22. "For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
23. "Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
24. "I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
25. "Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
26. "Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)" ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
27. "Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, muchless is he acquainted with its nature and quality." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
28. "Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
29. "Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
30. "People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
31. "The sky is an enormous man." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
32. "Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
33. "The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
34. "The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
35. "This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

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