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• 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.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Jesus, Discovery

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

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• All new news is old news happening to new people

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  People, News, Old News

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• As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Men, Flesh

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• 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 marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, Theory Of Evolution, Dubious

  "Legalism and the Sins of the Church" by L. Roger Sockwell, Xulon Press, (p. 30, 2002.

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• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Flames, Pro Life

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1971). “Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, HarperCollins

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• 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 different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pornography, Knows

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• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Reality, Birth Control Pills

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• I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Men, Want

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.225, Regent College Publishing

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Focus, Longing, Crosses

  Tread Softly (1966) p. 46

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• One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Intelligent, Two

  "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.

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• The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Opportunity, Garden, Media

  1976 Christ and theMedia, introduction.

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• People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, People, Zealous

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, School, Age

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Simple, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

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  Men, Age, Way

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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• There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Darkness

  In 1979; cited in Touchstone magazine (December 2003).

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• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Real, People, Evil

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• I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Essence, Criticism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom". Documentary, 2007.

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• [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 the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

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  Beautiful, War, Men

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• The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Educational, Believe, Media

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pursuit Of Happiness, World, Misery

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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