He insists that a sense of humour is our only salvation--that only those will be saved who happen to be laughing for the same reason that God laughs when He looks at us--that the little Mohammedans and Christians and things will be burned for their blasphemy of believing God not wise and good enough to save them all, Mohammedan and Christian alike, though not thinking excessively well of either; that only those laughing at the whole gory nonsense will go into everlasting life by reason of their superior faith in God." "Of course that's plausible, and yet it's radical.

Hoover's father was a bishop, and I think Hoover is just a bit narrow from early training.

He can't see that lots of people who haven't a vestige of humour are nevertheless worth saving.

I admit that saving them will be a thankless task.

God won't be able to take very much pleasure in it, but in strict justice he will do it--even if Hoover does regard it as a piece of extravagant sentimentality." A little later she went in.