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Charles Williams

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

God, Job, Patient

Charles Williams

Hell is indefinite.

Charles Williams

I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and there’d be an end to her forever. Let them send me to the chair. Let ’em burn me. All they could do was kill me.

hate, insanity, killing, madness, revenge

Charles Williams

, Stanhope delayed a moment behind Miss Fox to add: “The substantive, of course, governs the adjective; not the other way round.””The substantive?” Pauline asked blankly.”Good. It contains terror, not terror good. I’m keeping you. Good-bye, Periel,” and he was gone.

good, language, terror

Charles Williams

There is no possible idea,” Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, “to which the mind of man can’t supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

Charles Williams

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.

alchemy, christian-hermeticism, inspirational, supernatural, tarot

Charles Williams

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

discipleship, maturation

Charles Williams

Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius’s treatise against the Gnostics?” he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant looked gravely back. “Not for sale, I’m afraid,” he said. “Nor, if it comes to that, the Gnostic treatises against St. Ignatius.” “Quite,” Anthony answered.

books, christianity, fathers-of-the-church, gnosticism, theology

Charles Williams

The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately, and no doubt this was so in the ordinary literal sense. But it was certainly expected also in another sense. The converts in all the cities of Asia and (soon) of Europe where the small groups were founded had known, in their conversion, one way or another, a first coming of their Redeemer. And then? And then! That was the consequent task and trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited for his further exhibition of himself. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as catholic — as universal and as durable — as time.

church-history, eschatology, theology

Charles Williams

The Church expected the Second Coming of Christ immediately. The converts had known a first coming. And then? And then! That was the trouble — the then. He had come, and they adored and believed, they communicated and practiced, and waited. The then lasted, and there seemed to be no farther equivalent Now. Time became the individual and catholic problem. The Church had to become as universal and as durable — as time.

christianity, jesus-christ, second-coming, the-church

Charles Williams

An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Charles Williams

I generally give the title-page a fair chance,” Roger said. “Once can’t always judge books merely by the cover.