Charles Williams
Charles Williams
bargaining bargains
How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?
bells rooms telephones
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
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.
children may littles
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
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
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
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.