DF Various - Faith and Charity and Use

DF 13

In its first origin charity is an affection for goodness;
and because goodness loves truth,
it produces an affection for truth,
and through that affection
an acknowledgment of truth, which is faith.
Through this progression
the affection for goodness finds expression
and becomes charity.

DF 19 [2]

So great is the analogy between the heart and charity,
and between the lungs and faith,
that in the spiritual world
the character of someone’s faith is discerned
simply from his breathing,
and the character of his charity
from the beating of his heart.
For just like people,
angels and spirits depend for their life
on a heart and respiration.
That is why they feel, think, act and speak
like people in the world.

DF 20

This character that makes a person loveable
is useful endeavor,
and it is called good.
This is accordingly the neighbor.

DF 21

Yet it is one thing to love the neighbor
for the good or use he may be to us,
and another to love the neighbor
for the good or use we may be to him.
To love the neighbor for the good or use
he may be to us
is something an evil person can do;
but to love the neighbor for the good or use
we may be to him
is something only a good person can do.
For it is the goodness in him
that prompts a good person to love good,
or the affection for useful endeavor in him
that prompts him to love useful endeavor.

DF 22

Properly speaking, love is love toward the Lord,
and love for the neighbor is charity.
It is impossible for a person
to have love toward the Lord
unless he possesses charity.
It is in charity
that the Lord conjoins himself with a person.

DF 23

In sum, insofar as someone
refrains from evils as being sins
and turns to the Lord,
so far he possesses charity,
and so far he accordingly possesses faith.