Charles Williams
Charles Williams
moving thinking order
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been
rain wind fire
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.
spiritual clouds wind
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.
spirit mathematics mathematical
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
two forgiving magnificence
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.
two mind literature
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
play praying whole
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
leadership religious judging
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.
people desert unusual
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
people wish quitting
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
devotion given ends
Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.
spiritual plato philosophical
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.
mean emotional god-is-love
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
men forgiving easier
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