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“Love for others, or charity, is the actual base on which faith is based.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 1843

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“Love for others, or charity, is the actual base on which faith is based.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 1843
“Only to believe is not faith, but to will and to do what is believed, this is faith.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Last Judgment 36
“Charity and faith make a one as do the will and the understanding, for charity is of the will, and faith is of the understanding faith without charity is like a form without an essence, which is not anything at all.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Doctrine of Faith 18
“The reason faith loses when it looks away from the Lord toward us and our worldly advantages is that we then fight on our own.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 8606
“Faith that does not come from charity does not lead to worship, because it lives only on the lips, not in the heart.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 440
1Saturday, February 17, 2018
The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 145:18 NLT Read Chapter
“Everyone knows that a married pair who love each other are intimately united, and that the essence of marriage is the union of spirits or minds.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell 375
“You cannot have faith in the Lord unless you are in charity.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Doctrine of Faith 22
“Faith is an internal affection which consists in a heartfelt desire to know what is true and what is good, and this not for the sake of doctrine as the end in view, but for the sake of life. “
Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia 8034
“To believe in the Lord is to have confidence that He saves; and because only those who have good lives can have such confidence, this too is meant by believing in Him.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion 2
for Tuesday, January 30, 2018
“Believing in the Lord gives us a partnership with him, and through this partnership comes salvation.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion 2