Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

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

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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