Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.

Like the Bible-a document that often contradicts itself and from which one can construct sharply different arguments-theology is the product of human hands and hearts.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

There is a direct relationship between our personal experience with the Lord and how we see ourselves. The closer we grow to him, the more clear and complete becomes our vision of who we are, who we have always been, and who we may become.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.