Thursday, April 23, 2009

NJHD 108, 110-111 - real faith

NJHD 108, 110-111
No one can know what faith is in its essence,
unless he knows what charity is,
because where there is no charity there is no faith,
for charity makes one with faith as good does with truth.

Charity conjoins itself with faith with a person,
when a person wills that which he knows and perceives;
to will is of charity,
and to know and perceive is of faith.
Faith enters into a person, and becomes his,
when he wills and loves that which he knows and perceives;
meanwhile it is without him.

Faith does not become faith with a person, unless it becomes spiritual,
and it does not become spiritual, unless it becomes of the love;
and it then becomes of the love,
when a person loves to live truth and good, that is,
to live according to those things which are commanded in the Word.

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