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> [I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/i-think-in-order-to-move-forward-into-the-future-you-need-to-know/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

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## More by Charles Williams

> [To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/to-forgive-and-to-be-forgiven-are-the-two-points-of-holy-magnificence/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/the-most-he-would-do-was-to-promise-that-the-gates-of-hell-should-not/)

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> [“Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius's treatise against the Gnostics?" he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/have-you-by-any-chance-an-edition-of-st-ignatius-s-treatise-against/)

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> [“What’s the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/what-s-the-matter-with-you-madox-you-got-a-grudge-against-the-world/)

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> [“There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/there-is-no-possible-idea-kenneth-thought-as-he-came-onto-the-terrace/)

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> [Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/of-adam-and-eve-they-had-what-they-wanted-that-they-did-not-like-it/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

> [Hell is indefinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/hell-is-indefinite/)

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> [“Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/nothing-was-certain-but-everything-was-safe-that-was-part-of-the/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

> [Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/every-contrition-for-sin-is-apt-to-encourage-a-not-quite-charitable/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

> [Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/love-was-even-more-mathematical-than-poetry-it-was-the-pure/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

> [“Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/over-the-white-curve-he-had-looked-into-incredible-space-abysses-of/)

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> [You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/you-will-all-know-that-in-the-middle-ages-there-were-supposed-to-be/)

[Charles Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-williams/)

> [“She sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lot four sons got by him, and one not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/she-sat-the-sister-of-arthur-the-wife-of-lot-four-sons-got-by-him-and/)

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> [The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe a thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/the-history-of-christianity-would-have-been-far-happier-if-we-all-had/)

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> [Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-williams/many-promising-reconciliations-have-broken-down-because-while-both/)

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