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Malcolm Muggeridge
British
Journalist
Born:
Mar 24
,
1903
Died:
Nov 14
,
1990
Because
Life
Old
Only
People
Religion
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Truth
God
Truth Is
Nothing
Believe
Worse
Has-Been
High
High Level
Developed
Sin
Said
Been
Sins
Very
Human
Stop
Human Beings
Anything
Which
Century
Much
Beings
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
Believing
Level
Credulity
Peculiar
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
People
Believe
Lies
Because
Want
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Life
Art
God
Great
Every
Parable
Small
Message
Get
Whereby
Happening
Us
Speaks
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
Joy
Live
Gave
Say
Pursuing
Never
Knew
Like
Until
Am
Discoveries
Up
Die
Beholden
Chose
Jesus
Cared
Two
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Religion
Sex
Society
Possible
Only
Mysticism
Materialism
Materialistic
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Good
Acceptance
Reality
Humor
Bad
Evasion
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
Time
History
People
Will
Evil
Our
Our Time
Constantly
See
Advertising
Real
Stimulating
Want
Things
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Trouble
Liable
Earth
See
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Only
Come
Because
Pass
Heaven
Realized
Then
Apparent
Need
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness
Youth
Moods
Citizens
Obliged
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Tends
Involve
Undertake
Perpetuate
Trying
American
Tastes
American Citizens
Which
Them
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Life
World
Our
Hotel
Like
Night
Second-Class
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Travel
Mind
Course
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Failure
Darkness
See
Only
Thing
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Religion
Sex
Substitute
Century
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