The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

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

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

We are, because God is.

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.

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

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.