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The Power (and Peril) of Words One time, I lied to the elders. (That’s another story except to say that they were blinded by trust.) It wasn’t a big lie—I said I’d done something I hadn’t—but I reali...

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

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.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

The secret of life lies in laughter and humility.

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...

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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

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...

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

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 ...

Humor is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

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.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

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

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

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

As we wait, it is critical that we keep our sense of humor in the fullest meaning of that word. When laughter goes, so does hope. When God reaffirms his promise to Abraham and Sarah, he restores not o...

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...

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

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 ...

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.

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

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

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

[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.