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

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

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

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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.