E.m. ForsterA book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to peer out. This quote says that no matter how hard you try to make a person be what they aren’t, you will never make them exactly like you. An apostle is a person who has been sent by God to teach us about God and the Bible. However, not all books are intended to teach us about God and his word.
If an apostle were to look into a book and see something wrong with it (like an ass looking in at the mirror), he wouldn’t be able to take what was written in that book and apply it to himself. The same is true for anything we read in this world; we can’t use it as a guide for our lives if it’s not meant to be our “guide.”
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