Quotes from Michael Leunig

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

Love one another and you will be happy. Its as simple and as difficult as that.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

When the heart Is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind From the good old sea blow in To bathe the wound with salt And let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird lean in the hole and sing A simple song like a tiny bell And let it ring Let it go. Let it out. Let it all unravel. Let it free and it can be A path on which to travel.

Love one another and you will be happy, it is as simple and as difficult as that

Life is offensive and refuses to apologise

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

Happiness is just a little thing; Humans mostly are too large for it. If you cannot feel the joy of spring Shrink yourself and maybe then you'll fit.

Come sit down beside me, I said to myself, And although it doesn't make sense, I held my own hand As a small sign of trust And together I sat on the fence.

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives...

Each day is a lifetime.

There are only two feelings. Love and fear. There are only two languages. Love and fear. There are only two activities. Love and fear.