Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Jesus himself, even in his obscurity, dreaded the gathering of crowds, and where possible avoided them. Everything in Christianity that matters is from individual to individual; collectivities belong to the Devil, and so easily respond to his persuasion. The Devil is a demagogue and sloganeer; Jesus was, and is, concerned with individual souls, with the Living Word. What he gives us is truth carried on the wings of love, not slogans carried on the thrust of power.

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

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... 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.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

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.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.