Mind And Heart

It is common knowledge that intellect resides in the mind and love dwells in the heart.  If a smart man has no love [1] in his heart, he is left with emptiness.  If a man is without intellect but has only love to guide him, he is headed to Heaven.

Man's love cannot be infinite.  His is personal and cannot be assigned and as such (unlike God's) it is limited by his time, his innate vulnerabilities and his inability to be everywhere for everybody.  In contrast, his intellect is not inextricably tied to his body and his soul, so that he is able to share and spread his intellect by all possible means of communication.

This year's Holy Week began on Palm Sunday. [2]  In less than a week, the world can remember Jesus and His death on the cross on Good Friday, how He suffered and died out of unconditional love for God, His Father, and for all sinners. Jesus could not have delegated His sinless love to another so that He could watch the crucifixion instead of going through with it, nor could God have delegated God's love to somebody else besides Jesus (God's Personal incarnation) Who Himself is a part of the Holy Trinity, indivisible from God. [3]


[1] Love is not synonymous with desire.
[2] http://catholicism.about.com/od/2016-Calendar/f/When-Is-Holy-Week-2016.htm
[3] "To be sure, it is Christ who is seen, the visible image of the invisible God, but it is the Spirit who reveals him." http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c3a8.htm, section 689.