"When someone's body can no longer perform its functions in the natural world in response to the thoughts and affections of its spirit , then we say that the individual has died. This happens when the lungs' breathing and the heart's systolic motion have ceased. The person, though, has not died at all. We are only separated from the physical nature that was useful to us in the world. The essential person is actually still alive. I say that the essential person is still alive because we are not people because of our bodies but because of our spirits. After all, it is the spirit within us that thinks, and thought and affection together make us the people we are. We can see, then, that when we die we simply move from one world into another. This is why in the inner meaning of the Bible, "death" means resurrection and a continuation of life."

“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.”

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