Michael Leunig Quotes

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Was it not enough to crucify Christ, Must you crucify all redeemers?

There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him--early.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

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.

From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.