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. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe a thing more strongly at the end of a bitter argument than at the beginning, not to believe… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“What’s the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“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… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
