Charles Williams (British writer) Quotes

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Deep, deeper than we believe, lie the roots of sin; it is in the good that they exist; it is in the good that they thrive and send up sap and produce the black fruit of hell.

Charles Williams
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Charles Williams
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither was prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams
If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.

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How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

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Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

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The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

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The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

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It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

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It's said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That's of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it's said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

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