The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition. . . or caprice?
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible. . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?. . . It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?
