Swedenborg Quotes

“This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg

“Love comes into being through useful service to others.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg

“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

“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, Secrets of Heaven Volume 1: The Deluxe New Century Edition

“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven Volume 1: The Deluxe New Century Edition

“All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence.”
― Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion, Vol 1

“La oss derfor lide uten håp om en eneste varig glede i dette livet siden vi, mine brødre, allerede er i helvete.”
― August Strindberg, Inferno

“According to Swedenborg, all human experience was only a reflection of a larger spiritual one. The human soul was what gave meaning and expression to the concrete world.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox