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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

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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)

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