Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning…

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer courts of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else…

— Mary McCarthy

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

— Joyce Carol Oates

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of…

— Anonymous

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

— Twyla Tharp

There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the…

— Ian Bremmer

“All memory is prelude.”

— David W. Blight

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa,…

— Richard Leakey

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred…

— John Boyd Orr

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

— Anonymous

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or…

— Daniel Goleman

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

— Anonymous