Though you are
Christians, and are the friends of God in the main, yet your divisions and
strifes show that you are yet, in some degree, under the influence of the
principles which govern the people of this world. People who are governed
solely by the principles of this world, evince a spirit of strife, emulation
and contention; and just so far as you are engaged in strife, just so far do
you show that you are governed by their principles and feelings. - Albert
Barnes
There is no
condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not
more obliged to follow their fancies than his own. All the commerce of life
is a perpetual constraint to the laws of good breeding, and the necessity of
humoring others; and besides, our own passions are the worst tyrants: if you
obey them but by halves, a perpetual strife and contest exists within; and
if you entirely give up yourself to them, it is horrid to think to what
extremities they will lead. - François Fénélon
Though you are
Christians, and are the friends of God in the main, yet your divisions and
strifes show that you are yet, in some degree, under the influence of the
principles which govern the people of this world. People who are governed
solely by the principles of this world, evince a spirit of strife, emulation
and contention; and just so far as you are engaged in strife, just so far do
you show that you are governed by their principles and feelings. - Albert
Barnes
There is no
condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not
more obliged to follow their fancies than his own. All the commerce of life
is a perpetual constraint to the laws of good breeding, and the necessity of
humoring others; and besides, our own passions are the worst tyrants: if you
obey them but by halves, a perpetual strife and contest exists within; and
if you entirely give up yourself to them, it is horrid to think to what
extremities they will lead. - François Fénélon