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 (1903–1990), Journalist
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God
Occasions: For Reflection
Malcolm Muggeridge
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.
All quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge (17)
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
C.S. Lewis
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Etty Hillesum
God writes straight even on crooked lines.
Paul Claudel
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer