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A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

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Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.

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We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.

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Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man.

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This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

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

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Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

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Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

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

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Angels from the Lord lead and protect us every moment and every moment of every moment.

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Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

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The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

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First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

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

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The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

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A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

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What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

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A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

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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.

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

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So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

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It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

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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.

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To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

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I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

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