Charles Williams
Charles Williams
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.
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.
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.
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.
spirit mathematics mathematical
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
moving thinking order
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been
strong hands safe
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
forgiveness party broken
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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