"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
"The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done."
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Source: Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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