Malcolm Muggeridge
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
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"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
"كل حدث، جليل أو يسير، هو مثلٌ يحدّثنا الله به، وفنّ الحياة أن نعي الرسالة."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"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."
"من الخطايا الفريدة التي تفشت في القرن العشرين، وبلغت فينا مبلغًا عظيمًا، هي آفة سرعة التصديق. وقد قيل إنه متى كفّ الإنسان عن الإيمان بالله، فإنه لا يؤمن بشيء. لكن الحقيقة أدهى وأمرّ: إنهم يؤمنون بكل شيء."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"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."
"إن السعي إلى السعادة، الذي يُعدّ التزامًا على المواطن الأمريكي، يُفضي بهم غالبًا إلى السعي لإدامة الحالات المزاجية والأذواق والميول الشبابية."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"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."
"أستطيع القول إني لم أذق طعم الفرح قط حتى أقلعت عن مطاردة السعادة، ولم أبالِ بالعيش إلا حين اخترت الموت. ولهذين الاكتشافين أنا مدين ليسوع."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
"من مباهج الشيخوخة الكثيرة التخلي عن الأشياء."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments."
Malcolm Muggeridge
"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."
Malcolm Muggeridge
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