Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

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

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

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

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.

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

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

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.