“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.”

“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”

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

“Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, muchless is he acquainted with its nature and quality.”

“Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'.”

“Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)”

“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”