--- title: "1 C-s-lewis Quotes By Alan Jacobs" description: "1 C-s-lewis quotes by Alan Jacobs. Plus more from Alan Jacobs and more C-s-lewis sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg" --- > [“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort of thing - but no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-to-stories-we-tend-to-contrast/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg) ## Other authors on C-s-lewis - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-cs-lewis-25587.jpg) C.S. Lewis 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/c-s-lewis/c-s-lewis-2/) ## More by Alan Jacobs > [“Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/objections-to-christianity-are-phrased-in-words-but-that-does-not/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/i-would-not-be-practicing-love-toward-god-or-my-neighbour-if-i-were/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“So let me conclude this chapter with a celebration of splitting--of the disciplined, principled preference for rejecting categories whenever we discern them at work.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/so-let-me-conclude-this-chapter-with-a-celebration-of-splitting-of/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/the-blogosphere-is-the-friend-of-information-but-the-enemy-of-thought/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a final one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/a-first-encounter-with-a-worthwhile-book-is-never-a-complete/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/so-the-books-are-waiting-of-this-you-may-be-confident-they-ll-be/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/and-yet-rereading-a-book-can-often-be-a-more-significant-dramatic-and/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/the-virtue-and-unpretentiousness-of-the-wise-man-which-i-am-talking/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/great-books-are-great-in-part-because-of-what-they-ask-of-their/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/t-s-eliot-wrote-almost-a-century-ago-about-a-phenomenon-that-he/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/christian-writers-whether-they-like-it-or-not-do-not-simply-write-for/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“The blessing of Google is its uncanny skill in finding what you're looking for; the curse is that it so rarely finds any of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/the-blessing-of-google-is-its-uncanny-skill-in-finding-what-you-re/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/dehaene-even-allows-himself-a-few-moments-of-justifiable-annoyance-at/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/slow-down-make-a-point-of-revisiting-passages-that-seem-especially/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) > [“For heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined appointment with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/for-heaven-s-sake-don-t-turn-reading-into-the-intellectual-equivalent/) [Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/c-s-lewis/alan-jacobs/#itemlist", "name": "1 C-s-lewis Quotes By Alan Jacobs", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason - we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort of thing - but no belief was more central to Lewis's mind than the belief that it is eminently, fully rational to be responsive to the enchanting power of stories.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Jacobs" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-to-stories-we-tend-to-contrast/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by…” — Alan Jacobs", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/c-s-lewis/alan-jacobs/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/c-s-lewis/alan-jacobs/", "name": "C-s-lewis Quotes by Alan Jacobs", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/c-s-lewis/alan-jacobs/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/alan-jacobs-22461_c-s-lewis_when-we-talk-today-about-receptiveness-t_3039672.jpg" }, "description": "1 C-s-lewis quotes by Alan Jacobs. 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