Charles Williams Quotations

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

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

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 ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

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

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 revolves.

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

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 reluctant to be forgiven by men

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

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.

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 day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

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

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.

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.

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.

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

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

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

I don't care how much lip service they give you about it, there is this culture in Atlantic Beach that believes this nonsense is OK.

If it's upheld by the Supreme Court, it will increase our ability to serve our customers worldwide to secure e-commerce and international information,

If it's not one thing, it's another. I'm tired of being shuffled around.

He's a good driver ... we've never had anything like this happen before,

We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

Lake City is not the cause of all your problems with sewage cost. You cannot build a plant for what you're paying Lake City. The four of you are responsible.

I think that's bad but at the same time, it's all about money to me. It's all about going up on everything and that's all Congress thinks about when it comes down to that.

I thought I got robbed. I thought I threw more punches than him and landed more. But that's how boxing is. I just can't believe I lost that fight.

That's the only score that I can remember. 58-53. We just have to come out and try to outplay them. We have to play better defense this time.

Unfortunately, there is an element in the town that is comfortable with and profits from that activity taking place. I wasn't on the same wavelength as some members of council in terms of development and fighting crime.

We want to continue to get feedback from dealers to enhance it. We want to make it easier for them to do business with Manheim and be successful in the used car business.

We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.

This will make the driver think twice when he thinks about drinking or anything. You know he'll see how serious this is.

You have to rebound the ball and we didn't do that down the stretch.

We had poor shot selection, turnovers, no rebounding and just poor defense all the way around.

quite unlikely to be the cause of the defects.

They're praying for that family also, not just (for) us,

It was the largest march I've seen in my career. It was very peaceful, very well-organized.

Everybody is doing their part. I can't emphasize enough the police officer on the street. They are the ones bringing us the success. Day in and day out.

It's always tough when you're going against that kind of size because you worry about rebounding. The difference was that in the second half we just doubled up on the post.

They keep getting bigger and better and continue to expand right along with us.

In preparing for trial and because of the motions she has filed to exclude witnesses I decided to re-file. I didn't want to risk this evidence not coming in.

If I stay with second-degree charges, I end up in a fight over whether I can call these witnesses. These witness show there was premeditation.