--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 2568


THE FAITH OF THE FAITHFUL

It is one thing to know truths, another to acknowledge them, and yet
another to have faith in them. Only the faithful can have faith.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 896

The only faith that endures with man springs from heavenly love. Those
without love have knowledge merely, or persuasion. Just to believe in
truth and in the Word is not faith. Faith is to love truth, and to
will and do it from inward affection for it.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 482

If a man thinks to himself or says to another, "Who can have that
inward acknowledgment of truth which is faith? I cannot," I will tell
him how he may: "Shun evils as sins, and go to the Lord, and you will
have as much as you desire."

--_Doctrine Concerning Faith, n._ 12


NEIGHBORS

Not only is the individual man the neighbor, but the collective man,
too. A society, smaller or larger, is the neighbor; the Church is; the