“One night there rang out over the stillness of an evening breeze the cry of the heart of God in the voice of a child. And when the Babe grew in grace and wisdom, He went into the public lanes and market places, and began to teach a new doctrine to men – the doctrine of the Divine Sense of Humor. Everything He said, everything He did could be summed up in these words: Nothing in the world is to be taken seriously, nothing – except the salvation of a soul. Such is the history of the Divine Sense of Humor, and now that we know what it is, we may ask who are they who understand and possess it, and here the answer must be that those who possess it in its fullness are saints. I do not mean canonized saints, but rather the great army of solid Christians to whom everything speaks a story of God’s love. A saint can be defined as one who has a Divine Sense of Humor, for a saint never takes the world seriously as the lasting city. To him the world is like a scaffolding up through which souls climb to the Kingdom of Heaven, and when the last soul shall have climbed up through it, then it shall be torn down, not because it is base, but simply because it has done its work. He who came to this earth to teach us the Divine Sense of Humor showed us everything that was lovely and beautiful in His Character – except one thing. He showed us his power; He showed us his Wisdom; He showed us His melting kindness; He showed us His sorrow; He showed us His tears; but there was one thing He saved for Heaven that will make heaven, Heaven, and that was – His Smile!” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Manifestations of Christ)