Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.

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

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.