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.

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.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

We are, because God is.

Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.