A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

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.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.