Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

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.

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.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.

Only God knows You’re talking to him now.

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.