Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

By doing good we become good.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.