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.
Charles WilliamsIt may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
Charles WilliamsIt is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
Charles WilliamsHow can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?
Charles WilliamsUnless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.
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