He further said: “He who could trace all wars and contentions and worldly plans to their source ​ — all the schemes and purposes of even professed Christians, that do so much to mar their religion and to make them worldly - minded, to their real origin — ​ would be surprised to find how much is to be attributed to envy.
بارْنز درست برعکس این موضوع ،‏ گفتهٔ جالبی را دربارهٔ محبت که « حسد نمی‌ورزد » ،‏ ابراز کرد .‏