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Charles Williams
English
Editor
Born:
Sep 20
,
1886
Died:
May 15
,
1945
Forgive
Forgiven
God
Hell
People
You
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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.
Charles Williams
Love
God
Saying
Assumed
Ought
Our
Immediate
Something
Emotional
Generally
Like
Indulgence
Terror
Famous
Meaning
Meaning Of
Means
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
Charles Williams
Good
People
Good People
Pleasant
Thoroughly
See
Unusual
Getting
Deserts
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.
Charles Williams
God
Men
Easier
Willing
Reluctant
Than
Forgive
Forgiven
Often
Fatal
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.
Charles Williams
Fact
Had
Like
Alter
Does
Got
Did
Wanted
Certainly
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
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.
Charles Williams
Magnificence
Points
Doctrine
Forgive
Revolves
Forgiven
Modesty
Holy
Whole
Round
Largesse
Two
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.
Charles Williams
Day
Leadership
Judge
Church
Made
Hoped
Religious
Seem
Divine
Does
His
Itself
Comments
Officers
Much
Foundation
Thing
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.
Charles Williams
Prevail
History
Church
Looking
Looking Back
Hell
Back
Promise
Would
About
He
Feel
Most
Done
The History Of
Against
Should
Gates
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
Hell
Indefinite
Hell Is
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