Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

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.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

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

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.