Religious thoughts & sayings by muggeridge

Here are some religious thoughts and sayings by Malcolm Muggeridge, a British journalist, author, and commentator known for his Christian faith:

1. "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact."

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

3. "The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth."

4. "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."

5. "The depravity of man is a Christian doctrine, but the depravity of man is at the same time the most empirically verifiable fact."

6. "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."

7. "The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us."

8. "The greatest spiritual revolutionary Western history, Saint Francis of Assisi, proposed what he thought was an alternative Christian view of nature and man's relation to it; he tried to substitute the idea of the equality of all creatures, including man, for the idea of man's limitless rule of creation."

9. "So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense."

10. "The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth."

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