I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been
Charles WilliamsTo 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.
Charles WilliamsPlay and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
Charles WilliamsThe strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Charles WilliamsEvery contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
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 Williams