Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

God is love, but get it in writing.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

We are made to know and love God.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.