"Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when……" — Michael Leunig
"Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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