Faith and Emotions and Assent

But although the emotions are sometimes referred to, the term heart more often signifies the intellect. It is the heart that speaks, meditates, thinks and understands. At the same time, it cannot be uniformly translated intellect as distinguished from the will or the emotions. This is not because it excludes or is antithetical to the mind, the understanding, or the intellect, but because it includes them all and signifies the total personality. The term heart in reality means the self, or, with some colloquial emphasis, one's deepest self. And as the self acts emotionally, volitionally, and intellectually, the three activities are each represented in the several occurrences of the term. Although the term heart includes the emotions and therefore cannot be translated intellect, still the intellectual reference occurs much more frequently than any other; and this preponderance of the intellectual references shows the preponderance of the intellect in the personality.
- Gordon H. Clark, Religion, Reason and Revelation