"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
"The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
—Apocalypse Explained, n. 1074
HOW TO USE IT
They who, in reading the Word, look to the Lord, by acknowledging that all truth and all good are from Him, and nothing from themselves,—they are enlightened, and see truth and perceive what is good from the Word. That enlightenment is from the light of heaven.
—Arcana Coelestia, n. 9405
ITS DISSEMINATION OF LIGHT
There cannot be any conjunction with heaven unless somewhere upon the earth there is a Church where the Word is and by it the Lord is known. It is sufficient that there be a Church where the Word is, even though it should consist of few relatively. The Lord is present by it, nevertheless, in the whole world. The light is greatest where those are who have the Word. Thence it extends itself as from a centre out to the last periphery. Thence comes the enlightenment of nations and peoples outside the Church, too, by the Word.
—Doctrine concerning the Sacred Scripture, nn. 104, 106