Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.

We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.