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Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over mens souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Religion
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Happiness
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Faith
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Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life. – Mitt Romney

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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. – Mason Cooley

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. – John Paul Jones

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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. – Abraham Cahan

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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. – Joseph Butler

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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. – Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

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Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible. – William Feather

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