„Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.“

— Leonard Ravenhill

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„Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.“
— Leonard Ravenhill
„And know that all my joy, perfect, transcending sense, is given of Aiwaz, whom we call the Devil, whose name is Will, loud-uttered by cocaine, is Love.“
— Aleister Crowley
„The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
„Grosser light vanishes into eternal raysOf all-pervading Cosmic Joy.From Joy we come,For Joy we live,In the sacred Joy we melt.“
— Paramahansa Yogananda
„When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.“
— Ravi Zacharias