I see that he worships the Lord, and that he is a good man."
--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2385
MEMORABLE SAYINGS
MEMORABLE SAYINGS
All religion has relation to life; and the life of religion is to do
good.
Love in act is work and deed.
Heaven is a kingdom of uses.
No one who believes in God and lives well is condemned.
Shunning evils as sins is the mark of faith.
To resist one evil is to resist many; for every evil is united with
countless evils.
If you wish to be led by the Divine Providence, employ prudence as a
servant and attendant who faithfully dispenses his Lord's goods.
Where men know doctrine and think according to it, there the Church
_may be_; but where men act according to doctrine, there alone the
Church _is_.
It is not the desire of an intelligent man to be able to confirm
whatever he pleases; but to be able to see truth as truth, and falsity
as falsity, and to confirm his insight, is the way of an intelligent
man.
To reason only whether a thing is so or not, is like reasoning about
the fit of a cap or a shoe without ever putting it on.
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