Quotessence
Home / Authors / Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Scientist

Filter quotes by topic

AllHeavenMenAngelWorldSpiritualLordDivineSpiritDoeLove IsLoveCharityEvilHellPersonsBodyAnd LoveKnowsLifeAfter Death

Famous Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

“Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.”

PeopleMenWorldDoeDifferentSpiritualFormLife IsNightMoralOpinionDivineRegardSpiritual LifeInwardGood NightDivingMoral Life
Author:Emanuel Swedenborg
Create image

“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.”

MenWorldStatesSpiritualDeathNaturalChangedEternityRemainsEvery ManEvidentAfter DeathWorld Life
Book:Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?
Create image

“Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.”

KnowsMenDoeQualityInternals
Book:Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or Word of the Lord Unfolded Beginning with the Book of Genesis Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels
Create image

“I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.”

MenHumansSometimesFormCompanyThousandAngelHuman Form
Book:Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin [by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the
Create image

“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”

MenMeanSoulUseSpiritualReligionDivineSpiritual LifeDominion
Book:The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol III: Last Judgment; Last Judgment Continued; Last Judgment Posthumous
Create image

“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”

MenWorldLongStillsEarthEvilProcessChurchQualityLord
Book:The Last Judgment, and the Babylon Destroyed: so that all the predictions in the Apocalypse are at this day fulfilled ... Translated from the Latin, etc. (A new translation.)
Create image