Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based on dogma or a set of beliefs, nor on scriptures or a sacred book revealed by a great man. Witchcraft takes it's teachings from nature, and reads inspiration in the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, the flight of birds, the slow growth of trees, and the cycles of the seasons.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

All truth is God's truth.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.