All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

The sky is an enormous man.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

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.

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

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.

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

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.

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.