Charles Williams

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. ↗

— Charles Williams

#friendship

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. ↗

— Charles Williams

#fiction #fantasy-fiction

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. ↗

— Charles Williams

#both #broken #come #down #forgive

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ↗

— Charles Williams

#charitable #contrition #encourage #every #exhibit

Hell is indefinite. ↗

— Charles Williams

#hell is #indefinite

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been. ↗

— Charles Williams

#forward #future #i #i think #into

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. ↗

— Charles Williams

#getting #good #good people #people #pleasant

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying. ↗

— Charles Williams

#playing #pray #praying #whole #you

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 noticeably patient. ↗

— Charles Williams

#epigrams #god #high #indeed #intelligence

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 they certainly got it. ↗

— Charles Williams

#alter #certainly #did #does #eve