My absolutely favourite author is the late Malcolm Muggeridge (one reviewer stated that he "writes like an angel"). His use of the English language, syntax and grammar are second to none. I lost the opportunity of a lifetime when, by a mere couple of months, I missed hearing him lecturing at the University of Western Ontario in the summer of 1979!
Here is a small sample from his book "The end of Christendom":
“Can this really be what life is about, as the media insist? This interminable soap opera going on from century to century, from era to era, whose old discarded sets and props litter the earth? Surely not. Was it to provide a location for so repetitive and ribald a performance that the universe was created and man came into existence? I can’t believe it. If this were all, then the cynics, the hedonists, and the suicides would be right. The most we can hope for from life is some passing amusement, some gratification of our senses, and death. But it’s not all.
Thanks to the great mercy and marvel of the Incarnation, the cosmic scene is resolved into a human drama. God reaches down to relate Himself to man, and man reaches up to relate himself to God. Time looks into eternity and eternity into time, making now always and always now. Everything is transformed by this sublime drama of the Incarnation, God’s special parable for fallen man in a fallen world.”
