Thoroughly Good Quotes by Charles Williams

More Quotes by Charles Williams

Charles Williams has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence,…
• Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter…
• The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious…
• The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all…
• To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole…
• Hell is indefinite.

See all 17 quotes by Charles Williams »