Sydney J. Harris Quotes

No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

Laughter is God's blessing.

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is at the heart of God himself. We will never understand the significance of joy in human life until we understand its importance to God. I suspect that most of us seriously underestimate God's capacity for joy.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

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

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires