Deals Quote by 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

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

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

— William Sloane Coffin

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as…

— Democritus

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

— Sean Connery

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

— Martha Beck

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease.…

— Rajneesh

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

— Marc Maron

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid…

— Dave Barry