A heavenly society is a harmony of many.

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

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

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.

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.