The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.Īs quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.Īs quoted in Seed Sown : Theme and Reflections on the Sunday Lectionary Reading (1996) by Jay Cormier, p.
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.Īs translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. (8 August 1972) this has sometimes been published as if Shriver's interjection "after all the scientific and technological achievements" were part of the original statement, as in The New York Times (9 August 1972), p. in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."Īs quoted by R. "One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" - after all the scientific and technological achievements - "we shall harness for God the energies of love. "The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."