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1886–1945 England
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.
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If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
War in Heaven (1930)
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
War in Heaven (1930)
She was dead, but her very death heightened that word "supernatural"; it was what she, not being, was.
Christianity and life ought to be one.
The Forgiveness of Sin (1942)
Deep, deeper than we believe, lie the roots of sin; it is in the good that they exist; it is in the good that they thrive and send up sap and produce the black fruit of hell.
The Descent of the Dove (1939)
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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