Thomas Williams > Quotes

“Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come...”
― Thomas Williams

“Joy comes from knowing you are in the hands of a loving God who wills your ultimate good whatever the circumstance of the moment.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“Doing the hard thing even at the expense of comfort and immediate happiness does not make the Christian life one of perpetual misery. In following God through difficulty, we find real joy instead of its superficial substitute, happiness.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“It is this bloody-mindedness - the obsessive quest for wisdom though it brings no peace, the desire to gain knowledge of a future that cannot be circumvented, the relentless preparation for a doom that cannot be avoided - that reminds us of our own self-defeating consciousness, the knowledge of mortality that defines our humanity.”
― Thomas Williams, Viking Britain

“Good knows evil, but evil knows neither good nor itself.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There

“The voice of nature is an echo of the voice of God drawing us toward our true home. Earthly beauty is not to be shunned as a temptation but enjoyed as a first glimpse of the unbounded heavenly delights that await us in God's true country.”
― Thomas Williams, The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There