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The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

Arcana Coelestia (1749)

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

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

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

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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