Charles Williams Quotes (28 Quotes)



    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.

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

    Lake City is not the cause of all your problems with sewage cost. You cannot build a plant for what you're paying Lake City. The four of you are responsible.

    In preparing for trial and because of the motions she has filed to exclude witnesses I decided to re-file. I didn't want to risk this evidence not coming in.


    I don't care how much lip service they give you about it, there is this culture in Atlantic Beach that believes this nonsense is OK.

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

    If it's upheld by the Supreme Court, it will increase our ability to serve our customers worldwide to secure e-commerce and international information,

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

    We have to be competing with other sports like golf, tennis, table tennis, football but bridge has its attractions. It stimulates the mind and facilitates a great deal of social interaction. We want to go into the schools and say to the principals 'bridge is a game just like chess' that can stimulate students to think analytically and to develop his or her mental skills. We will send bridge teachers into schools.

    I think that's bad but at the same time, it's all about money to me. It's all about going up on everything and that's all Congress thinks about when it comes down to that.

    Everybody is doing their part. I can't emphasize enough the police officer on the street. They are the ones bringing us the success. Day in and day out.

    If I stay with second-degree charges, I end up in a fight over whether I can call these witnesses. These witness show there was premeditation.

    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.

    This will make the driver think twice when he thinks about drinking or anything. You know he'll see how serious this is.

    My feeling is we are still doing an outstanding job. The fact that we have been successful in keeping it down shows that 2004 was not a fluke. It was good strategies at work ... and extremely hard work.

    I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

    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.

    I thought I got robbed. I thought I threw more punches than him and landed more. But that's how boxing is. I just can't believe I lost that fight.

    We want to continue to get feedback from dealers to enhance it. We want to make it easier for them to do business with Manheim and be successful in the used car business.

    It's always tough when you're going against that kind of size because you worry about rebounding. The difference was that in the second half we just doubled up on the post.


    Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

    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.

    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.

    The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence -- not to believe a thing more strongly at the end of a bitter argument than at the beginning, not to believe it with the energy of the opposition rather than one's own.

    Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

    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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