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Heart speaks to heart.

Cardinal Newman's motto, heart speaks to heart seems unsual for an intellectual giant as he was. Should it not have been Mens ad mentem loquitur?

No.

The heart (the figurative heart that is, not the large muscle in the centre of the thorax pumping blood) is where the colloquy between Man and God takes place. It is here that human beings can (if they desire) come into colloquy with others. Newman's motto, for me, speaks of how the Truth should be transmitted.