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God–Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Lord of all our yesterdays, todays and tomorrows: thank you that we don’t need to be afraid of what’s coming because you’re already there ahead of us. Nothing takes yo...

Father – God of Joy and Hope; Wonderful Lord and Spirit of delight and wonder: You invite us to come to you with thanksgiving and joy, laughter and quiet awe. Your arms of welcome are out wide. So we ...

Loving God—who’s with us always and everywhere; who knows all our hurts and sorrows, our joys and celebrations ...and goes through them with us: Thank you for the hope we have in you—nothing is imposs...

Prayer of Adoration Father: You know us and love us from eternity. Jesus: You love us enough to die for us and be rise again to give us eternal life. Spirit: You pour out love to us every day, in...

May the Son of God who is already formed in you grow in you—so that for you he will become immeasurable, and that in you he will become laughter, exultation, the fullness of joy which no one can take ...

Leader: Come, and worship the Lord, who fills mouths with laughter and tongues with shouts of joy. People: The Lord has done great things for us, and so we rejoice. Leader: May those who sow in te...

The mouth filled with real laughter…is an image representing the end of days, the overcoming of separateness and closure. In this world, it remains a mere possibility that constantly destroys itself.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.

You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

That day is lost on which one has not laughed.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for onl...

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh hear...

If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crac...

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.

[On living in a concentration camp] I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.