“The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.
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The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
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Context: What happened was, 2,400 years ago, the Greek Gang of Three, by whom I mean Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, started to think based on analysis, judgment and knowledge. At the same time, church people, who ran the schools and universities, wanted logic to prove the heretics wrong. As a result, design and perceptual thinking was never developed. People assumed philosophers were doing it and so they blocked anyone else from doing it. But philosophers were not. Philosophers may look out at the world from a stained-glass window, but after a while they stop looking at the world and start looking at the stained glass.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.
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The Monthly Magazine
Source: Priest must be reflection of Christ, says bishop at international meeting https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/4540/priest-must-be-reflection-of-christ-says-bishop-at-international-meeting (1 August 2005)
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”