“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… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument. Words are tokens of the will. If something stronger than language were available then we would use it. But by the same token, words in defense of Christianity miss the mark as well: they are a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share
“I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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. Again, this is not to say that we can live without them, but rather that we need to cultivate skepticism as a first response. The group solidarity matters to almost all of us in one way… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share
“…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a final one.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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 so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share
“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this reason - though there are other reasons - one must take great care when dealing with potentially controversial topics not to imagine one's every pronouncement… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share
“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… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
