Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) — Journalist · Katholisch · England
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) war ein britischer Journalist, Autor und BBC-Moderator, der sich nach Jahren als agnostischer Auslandskorrespondent im späteren Leben dem katholischen Glauben zuwandte. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Berichterstattung über die sowjetische Hungerkatastrophe in der Ukraine, die weltweite Bekanntmachung von Mutter Teresa sowie seine scharfe Kritik am westlichen Materialismus. Für Bibelleser reflektieren seine Texte die Ernüchterung gegenüber säkularen Ideologien und die Suche nach moralischer wie geistlicher Orientierung.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Freedom & Truth, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Meaning & Identity, Ethical Questions, Doubt & Hard Questions, Suffering & the Question of God, Faith & Trust
Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
Looking over my 90 years, I realize I have never made any progress in good times. I only progressed in the hard times.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
Each day Mother Teresa meets Jesus; first at the Mass, whence she derives sustenance and strength; then in each needing, suffering soul she sees and tends. They are one and the same Jesus; at the altar and in the streets.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Everything that happens, whether striking or unremarkable, is a parable through which God speaks to us.
Malcolm Muggeridge
All other freedoms, once won, soon turn into new servitude. Christ is the only liberator whose liberation lasts forever.
Malcolm Muggeridge
All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is a City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful, with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained… This, of course, is what the Cross signifies. And it is the Cross, more than anything else, that has called me inexorably to Christ.
Malcolm Muggeridge
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Malcolm Muggeridge
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as darkness, only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Sources: britannica.com, theguardian.com, wikipedia.org, ed.ac.uk
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