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

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

One can see how great the delight of heaven must be from the fact that it is the delight of everyone in heaven to share his delights and blessings with others; and as such is the character of all that are in the heavens it is clear how immeasurable is the delight of heaven.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.

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

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

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.