And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.