Emanuel Swedenborg Love Quotations

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

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

Man knows that love is, but not what it is.

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

Love is the life of humanity.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it