Charles Williams
Born: 09-19-1886
Charles Williams was a British author, theologian, and literary critic, known for his involvement in the Inklings, a literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Born in 1886, he penned novels blending Christian theology with fantasy, such as "War in Heaven" and "The Place of the Lion." Williams also worked at Oxford University Press, contributing significantly to theological discourse and literary criticism until his passing in 1945.
Book summaries for books written by Charles Williams
Quotes
You think that everything is evil because you are evil.
The first law of the Lion is obedience.
Do you suppose that because a thing has no name, it has no existence?
Love does not demand that we be less than what we are.
The world is not to be reformed, it is to be redeemed.
The Lion is not an idea, He is a fact.
We have killed God, and the world is the corpse.
The Lion is in the world, but not of the world.
You cannot find the Lion by looking for Him, but He will find you.
It is not what we do that matters, but what we are.
The Lion is the center of everything.
In the presence of the Lion, all masks are torn away.