52. From these considerations the conclusion follows, that there is not with man a grain of truth more than there is good; and consequently not a grain of faith more than there is life. There may be in the understanding the thought that a thing is so, but not the acknowledgment amounting to faith, unless there is concurrence in the will. Thus do faith and life proceed together step by step. From these considerations then it is evident that so far as any one shuns evils as sins, so far he has faith, and is spiritual.