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Top 30 Charles Williams Quotes (2025 Update)

Charles Williams Quote: “Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.”

1. “Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.”

2. “I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you’ve been.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.”

3. “The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.”

4. “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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Charles Williams Quote: “How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?”

5. “How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.”

6. “Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”

7. “Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Let us have all the delights of which we are capable.”

9. “Let us have all the delights of which we are capable.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.”

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

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Charles Williams Quote: “A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize – without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose.”

11. “A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize – without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”

12. “Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “So long always as joy was not rashly pinned to the happening; so long as you accepted what joys the universe offered and did not seek to compel the universe to offer you joys of your own definition.”

13. “So long always as joy was not rashly pinned to the happening; so long as you accepted what joys the universe offered and did not seek to compel the universe to offer you joys of your own definition.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “But again He is equally present in sudden unexpected moments, and it is the neglect of these moments that is the most fruitful source of disbelief in Him.”

16. “But again He is equally present in sudden unexpected moments, and it is the neglect of these moments that is the most fruitful source of disbelief in Him.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “The child lies unborn in the queen’s womb; unformed in his brain is the web of all our doom, as unformed in the minds of all the great lords lies the image of the split Table and of surreptitious swords.”

17. “The child lies unborn in the queen’s womb; unformed in his brain is the web of all our doom, as unformed in the minds of all the great lords lies the image of the split Table and of surreptitious swords.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another’s.”

18. “She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another’s.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.”

20. “The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience. Both methods, the Affirmative Way and the Negative Way, were to co-exist; one might almost say, to co-inhere, since each was to be the key of the other: in intellect as in emotion, in morals as in doctrine.”

22. “Rejection was to be rejection but not denial, as reception was to be reception but not subservience. Both methods, the Affirmative Way and the Negative Way, were to co-exist; one might almost say, to co-inhere, since each was to be the key of the other: in intellect as in emotion, in morals as in doctrine.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “An hour’s conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.”

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

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Charles Williams Quote: “It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.”

24. “It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn’t neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.”

25. “There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn’t neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “It’ll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself”.”

26. “It’ll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself”.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.”

27. “It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Why isn’t one taught how to be loved? Why isn’t one taught anything?”

28. “Why isn’t one taught how to be loved? Why isn’t one taught anything?”

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Charles Williams Quote: “Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.”

29. “Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another’s.”

30. “The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another’s.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

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Charles Williams Quote: “You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”

32. “You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”

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