laughter on Injury

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...

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

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...

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.

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

"When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about."

Scott Weems, author of Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why, explains that humor stems from our brains being confused about how to respond, which is why we often laugh at inappropriate times. “Wha...

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...

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

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

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...

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

[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.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

That day is lost on which one has not laughed.