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