Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

“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 diffe...”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

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

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

“[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 ...”

“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...”

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

“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 marve...”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 n...”

“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”

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

“When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.”

“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.”

“Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.”

“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. ”