“Pardon,Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't.” — Charles Williams Forgiveness Copy Share Image
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the… — Charles Williams God is love Copy Share Image
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious… — Charles Williams Church Copy Share Image
“Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience. Both methods, the Affirmative Way… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the… — Charles Williams Alchemy Copy Share Image
“The hell with her; I wouldn’t go back. But wouldn’t I? What about later on? Keeping the thought of her out of… — Charles Williams Hate-to-love-you Copy Share Image
“There was no way to kiss her like a good boy. You could start out that way, but you always ended up… — Charles Williams Hate Copy Share Image
“If the redeemed sing, presumably someone must write the songs.” — Charles Williams Music making Copy Share Image
“Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, "once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.” — Charles Williams Art Copy Share Image
“[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting.” — Charles Williams Good and evil Copy Share Image
“I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.” — Charles Williams Book Copy Share Image
“I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill… — Charles Williams Hate Copy Share Image
Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end… — Charles Williams Devotion Copy Share Image
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe. — Charles Williams Crown of thorns Copy Share Image
“They're beautiful hands," he said; "though they've ruined the world, they're beautiful hands.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.” — Charles Williams Nature Copy Share Image
"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all.… — Charles Williams Arrangements Copy Share Image
“The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately. The converts had known a first coming. And then? And then! That was… — Charles Williams Christianity Copy Share Image
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to… — Charles Williams Books Copy Share Image
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered… — Charles Williams Forest Copy Share Image
“I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Why was this bloody world created?" "As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know… — Charles Williams Meaning of life Copy Share Image
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else. — Charles Williams Becoming Copy Share Image
“We who are here to-night are here as the servants of the guests of a great University, a University of knowledge, scholarship,… — Charles Williams Travel Copy Share Image
