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.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

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.

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

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.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.