"Words of Wisdom An extended range of quotations from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg."

“There is one God, in whom there is the Divine Trinity, and he is the Lord Jesus Christ. This can be briefly illustrated in the following way: It is a certain and established truth that God is one, and his essence cannot be divided; and also that there is a Trinity. Since God is One, and his essence cannot be divided, it follows that God is one Person. And since he is one Person, the Trinity is in that Person. It is clear that this Person is the Lord Jesus Christ from the fact that he was conceived from God the Father , and thus as to his soul and life itself he is God. Therefore, as he himself said, "he and the Father are one." .”

“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”

“A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.”

“All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.”

“Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.”

“Since the Bible is a divine revelation, every single part of it is divine. Anything that comes from the divine could be no other way. Everything that comes from the divine goes down through the heavens all the way to people on earth. In heaven it is adapted to the wisdom of the angels there, and on earth it is adapted to the understanding of the people there. So the Bible has an inner, spiritual meaning for angels and an outer, material-level meaning for people on earth. That is why our connection to heaven happens through the Bible.”