Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

Man was not made for the world, but the world for man.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

This universe was made for you and me.

Time was God's first creation.

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.