Swedenborg Heaven Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Emanuel Swedenborg

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. — Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. — Emanuel Swedenborg

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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. — Emanuel Swedenborg

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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 than to another. — Emanuel Swedenborg

for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine. — Emanuel Swedenborg

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Marriages on earth
because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love
are most holy in the estimation of the angels. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Seen in its own right, a loving person's inner spirit is an angel of heaven, and while we are living in the body we are also in the company of angels, even though we are not aware of it; and once we are released from the body we join them. — Emanuel Swedenborg

If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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. — Emanuel Swedenborg

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

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

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. — Emanuel Swedenborg

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next. — Emanuel Swedenborg

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. — Emanuel Swedenborg

In the Christian world ... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. — Emanuel Swedenborg

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world. — Emanuel Swedenborg

All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them. — Emanuel Swedenborg

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. — Emanuel Swedenborg