All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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

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

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