Emanuel Swedenborg Doe Quotations

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

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.

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

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.