“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
“Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim--readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are… — 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.… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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.… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“…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… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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
