He had been speaking of some of his youthful experiments in this direction, and ended with an amused laugh and the ejaculation, "Thank God! He led me into the Catholic Church.

If it hadn't been for that I should have been one of the worst cranks in the world." Here are two expressions taken from the diary of a permanent fact of Father Hecker's individuality.

They help to explain why he was misunderstood by many in later years: "Men have fear to utter absurdities.

The head is sceptical of the divine oracles of the heart, and before she utters them she clothes them in such a fantastic dress that men hear the words but lose the life, the thought." "We often act to be understood by the heart, not by the head; and when the head speaks of its having understood, we deny its understanding.

It is the secret sympathy of the heart which is the only response that is looked for.