Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

About Malcolm Muggeridge:

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he became a religious and moral campaigner.
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[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at ...

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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith Go...

Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could...

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All new news is old news happening to new people

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The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anyt...

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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

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Author Bio

  • NameMalcolm Muggeridge
  • DescriptionEnglish journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
  • BornMarch 24, 1903
  • DiedNovember 14, 1990
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Autobiographer