Written by Pastor Jack Wellman21 Wonderful Christian Quotes about Laughter
Laughter is a powerful thing. God gave us the ability to laugh, and the Bible mentions laughter and happiness multiple times in both the Old and New Testaments. Sometimes it might feel hard to laugh if you’re going through a hard situation, but finding something to laugh about can be a powerful tool for overcoming troubles. I pray that you find happiness, humor, and hope in this collection of verses and quotes!
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A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
- Proverbs 15:13
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No man in the world should be so happy as a man of God. It is one continual source of gladness. He can look up and say, "God is my Father, Christ is my Saviour, and the Church is my mother."
- Dwight L. Moody
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
- Jonathan Edwards
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Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:23-24
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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
- Blaise Pascal
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal.
- James H. Aughey
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Sometimes the joy which floods the soul overflows into the spirit, inducing the believer to think he is the happiest person in the world; at other times sorrow pervades and he becomes the most unhappy person. A soulish Christian frequently encounters such experiences.
- Watchman Nee
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope."
- William Gurnall
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Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Psalm 126:2
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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
- Frederick Buechner
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It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.
- Chuck Swindoll
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I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
- Charles Spurgeon
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For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
- Psalm 30:5
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Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. Jesus is in the happiness business.
- John Hagee
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
- David Brainerd
