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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.

— Charles Williams The Descent of the Dove (1939)

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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.

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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)

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