Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

I know God is real.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

What is the origin of God?

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

I say God is the ultimate.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

God is the explanation of all things.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

God is a name we give to love.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

I think I can tell you how I experience God. I experience God as the power of life calling me to live, I experience God as the power of love calling me to love. That's the God I see in Jesus of Nazareth, that's the God I see in the fourth gospel.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.