37. 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.