Quotes related to Proverbs 17:22
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.
- Mark Buchanan
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
- Richard Paul Evans
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
- Ellen White
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
- Mark Twain
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
- Heinrich Heine
Where sanity is there God is.
- DH Lawrence
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
- Mark Batterson
You can be happy in any circumstances, you simply need to believe in God.
- Nick Vujicic
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.
- Joel Osteen
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
- Washington Irving
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
- Johannes Tauler
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
- Pema Chodron