The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
