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

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

Reinhold Niebuhr
Happiness, Laughter, Prayer
Reinhold Niebuhr, (2013). “Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Read Books Ltd

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

Reinhold Niebuhr
Laughter, Prayer, Facts
Reinhold Niebuhr, (2013). “Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Read Books Ltd

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Laughter, Men, Laughing

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Laughter, Facts, Intimate

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Happiness, Laughter, Joy

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

Reinhold Niebuhr
Laughter, Men, Healthy

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