Books Quote 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.…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Alan Jacobs

“…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.”

— 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.”

— Alan Jacobs

“So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.”

— Alan Jacobs

“And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”

— Alan Jacobs

“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.”

— Alan Jacobs

“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alan Jacobs