Charles Williams
Charles Williams
bells rooms telephones
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
bargaining bargains
How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?
aunt opposites numbers
"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"
baseball weather funeral
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
promise church done
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.
people wish quitting
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
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.