Emanuel Swedenborg

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

The sky is an enormous man.

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

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

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.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

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.

Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

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.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God__, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.