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Heaven and Hell QUOTES

Heaven and Hell QUOTES

1 " Anyone 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 Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

2 " We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life. "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

3 " for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine. "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

4 " It is recognized that non-Christians live lives that are just as moral as the lives of Christians—many of them, in fact, live more moral lives. A moral life may be lived either to satisfy the Divine or to satisfy people in this world. A moral life that is lived to satisfy the Divine is a spiritual life. The two look alike in outward form, but inwardly they are totally different. One saves us, the other does not. This is because if we live a moral life to satisfy the Divine we are being led by the Divine; while if we live a moral life to satisfy people in this world, we are being led by ourselves. "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

5 " Further still, heaven is where the Lord is recognized, trusted, and loved. The different ways he is worshiped—in variations that stem from the difference of activity from one community to another—do not cause harm but bring benefit, because they are a source of heaven’s perfection. "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

6 " We can see that this underlies all perfection from every instance of beauty, charm, and delight that moves both our senses and our spirits. Such instances arise and flow invariably from a harmonious agreement of many things that are in sympathetic concord, whether they are together simultaneously or follow in a sequence. They do not flow from a single unit that lacks plurality. So we say that variety delights, and recognize that the delight depends on the quality of the variety. We can see from this, as though in a mirror, how perfection stems from variety in heaven as well, since things that happen in the natural world offer us a reflection of things in the spiritual world.d "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

7 " So anyone who has the quality of goodness from the Lord is an angel-person.g "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell

8 " El Señor no envía a nadie al infierno, es el mismo espíritu el que se arroja a él. "

― Emanuel Swedenborg , Heaven and Hell