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
Charles WilliamsMany promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles WilliamsThe 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.
Charles WilliamsI think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been
Charles WilliamsItโs 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. Thatโs of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, itโs said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.
Charles Williams