Malcolm Muggeridge was one of the most successful journalists of the twentieth century. For much of his life he was an agnostic, but an experience he had while making a documentary on the life of Jesus turned him into a believer. Towards the end of his life, referring to the degree of fame, fortune and fulfilment he’d known, he said this: ‘I may, I suppose, regard myself a relatively successful man…Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me, multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing – less than nothing – measured against one draught of that living water Christ offers to the spiritually thirsty, irrespective of who or what they are.’
‘Whoever drinks the water I give,’ said Jesus, ‘will never be thirsty again. It will become a spring welling up to eternal life.’