The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

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.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.