People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
Malcolm MuggeridgeHistory 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.
Malcolm MuggeridgeSecrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist sรฉance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.
Malcolm MuggeridgeIn the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
Malcolm Muggeridge