"Swedenborg was one of the world's greatest geniuses. With his rare intellect and deep spiritual insight he has much to contribute to our modern life." Norman Vincent Peak
"For you Westerners, it is Swedenborg who is your Buddha, it is he who should be read and followed!" D. T. Suzuki
"More truths are confessed in his writings than of those of any other man." Thomas Carlyle
"To my mind, the only light that has been shed on the other life is found in Swedenborg's philosophy." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg. One of the mastadons of literature, he is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have come back to Swedenborg after vast studies of all religions, and after reading all the works published within the last sixty years. Swedenborg undoubtedly epitomizes all religions - or rather the one religion - of humanity. " Honoré de Balzac
"Swedenborg's message has meant so much to me! It has given color and reality and unity to my thought of the life to come; it has exalted my ideas of love, truth, and usefulness; it has been my strongest incitement to overcome limitations.... He is the greatest champion of genuine Christianity in twenty centuries." Helen Keller