Selection from Divine Love and Wisdom ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
In heaven all who perform uses from affection for use — because of the communion in which they live — are wiser and happier than others; and with them performing uses is acting sincerely, uprightly, justly, and faithfully in the work proper to the calling of each. This they call charity.Observances pertaining to worship they call signs of charity, and other things they call obligations and favors, saying that when one performs the duties of his calling sincerely, uprightly, justly, and faithfully, the good of the community is maintained and perpetuated, and that this is to "be in the Lord," because all that flows in from the Lord is use, and it flows in from the parts into the community, and flows out from the community to the parts. The parts there are angels, and the community is a society of them.
(Divine Love and Wisdom 431)