Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of parables whereby God communicates in terms that the imagination rather than the mind, faith rather than knowledge, can grasp.

Another area of the moral and spiritual decline of Christendom is the abandonment of Christian mores. The movement away from Christian moral standards has not meant moving to an alternative humanistic system of moral standards as was anticipated, but moving into a moral vacuum, especially in the areas of eroticism.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

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.

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.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

Christianity to me is like a hopeless love affair. It is infinitely dear and infinitely unattainable.

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.