In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
More Quotes By Malcolm Muggeridge
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness.... Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story …man... If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or... Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life... The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists… have all assumed that the New Testament... When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about... The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the... One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is... We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon... What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating... Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one... Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter...
Leave a comment
