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Charles Williams quotes

English Editor September 20, 1886 – March 15, 1945

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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. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure..."
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "Pardon, Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially..."
Pardon, Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "She sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lotfour sons got by..."
She sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lotfour sons got by him, and one not. Charles Williams
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. Charles Williams
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. Charles Williams
The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to..."
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the..."
[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting. Charles Williams
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. Charles Williams
Why was this bloody world created?"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever." [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative. Charles Williams
Charles Williams quote: "It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good..."
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. Charles Williams
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. Charles Williams
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. Charles Williams
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. Charles Williams

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