DLife 36, 37
Goodness is a property of the will,
truth a property of the intellect.
A love of good in the will
produces a love of truth in the intellect.
A love of truth produces a perception of truth,
and a perception of truth produces thought of truth.
All of these lead to an acknowledgment of truth,
which is what faith is in its true meaning.
Since goodness is not good unless it is,
as we said, united with truth,
goodness consequently
does not find expression prior to that,
and yet it strives continually to find expression.
In order to find expression,
it therefore desires truths and acquires them for itself.
By these it is nourished and given form.
For this reason,
insofar as someone is prompted by goodness,
so far he loves truths,
which is accordingly the case
insofar as he refrains from evils as being sins;
for so far he is prompted by goodness.
DLife 45
. . . someone who does not refrain from evils as being sins,
does not have faith,
because he is caught up in evil,
and evil fundamentally hates truth.
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