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
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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.
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.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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.
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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