Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

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

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

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.