1“Wherefore let him who wishes to be eternally happy know and believe that he will live after death. Let him think of this and keep it in mind, for it is the truth.” (Secrets of Heaven 8939:3)
2“One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life.” (Psalm 27:4)
3“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” (John 11:25, 26)
4“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12:31-32)
5“It is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as some believe. When any thing presents itself to a person that he knows to be dishonest and unjust…it is simply necessary for him to think that it ought not to be done because it is opposed to the Divine laws. When a person has made a beginning the Lord stimulates all that is good in him, and helps him to see evils to be evils, to refrain from willing them, and finally to turn away from them.” (Heaven and Hell 533)
6“Love pervades the whole of heaven, for in the heavens no other life is found except the life that belongs to love.” (Secrets of Heaven 32)
7“A person was created so that, as to his internal, he cannot die. For he can believe in God, and also love God, and therefore he can be conjoined with God by faith and love. Being conjoined with God means living to eternity. “ (New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 223)
