'Here is the ultimate sting for the cynic. God sees through, unmasks and scorns the cynic's cynicism. This is the greatest irony of all - and so something that is rarely imagined - that the transcendent God laughs at cynicism, not with the laughter of glee but of pity and sadness at its grandoise pretensions. When he who knows everything is not cynical, and we who know so little claim cynical insight, we appear ridiculous in his eyes.'
Dick Keyes, Seeing through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion, p.163.
