"Love comes into being through useful service to others.












This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
More Emanuel Swedenborg quotes
"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 whi...
"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 happi...
"This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
"The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
"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...
"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 t...
"The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.