Random Quotes
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The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Love is the life of humanity.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455
He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.Mahatma Gandhi
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.Ralph Emerson, Nature: Addresses and Lectures