You are welcome. Charles Williams is an interesting person — his novels are really good “spiritual thrillers,” though his style was one which got better as he aged (his best is his last, All Hallow’s Eve.). My favorite novels of his are Place of the Lion (an influence on Lewis and what made him want to meet Williams) and All Hallow’s Eve. I would see his second tier are Descent into Hell which is about two kinds of love with two kinds of end (self love and sacrificial love), and War in Heaven (his grail story). His other novels are also interesting, to be sure.

And I really did think this quote shows exactly as you said, and why it is so powerful.

Thanks for posting this. I’m not familiar with Charles Williams, an unfamiliarity which need not continue.

This quote has a lot to say about paradoxes and mystery: Giving up and taking up a burden; the nature of interpersonal relationships and intimacy; the paradox of closeness and its need for otherness; freedom through binding to another,…