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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. -- Wendell Berry
God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy. -- John Piper
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. -- John Hodgman
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell. -- Sarah Vowell
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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