Thomas Keating Quotes

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

...the Gods too love a joke.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

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.

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.

Yeah, I am fun loving. I do crack jokes at times too.

It's fun to be silly sometimes!

I try to not take myself too seriously and just have fun when I'm not playing.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you are not playful you are not alive.

Edward can do everything, right?" I explained. Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reproving look. "I hope you haven't been showing off-it's rude," she scolded. "Just a bit," he laughed freely. "He's been too modest actually," I corrected. "Well, play for her," Esme encouraged. "You just said showing off was rude," he objected. "There are exceptions to every rule," she replied.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.