Charles Williams Quotes

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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.
• How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?
• The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
• An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
• It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
• 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…
• 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…
• Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Hell is indefinite.
• Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
• Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
• The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe a thing more…
• I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
• 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…

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