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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

All of life is a wager

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

People are tempted to think (understandably) that if God were really good He’d never allow any evil in the world at all. But I don’t think a perfectly good God would never permit any evil, and neither would others, I wager, if they thought about it. Rather, I think that a good God always prevents suffering and evil unless He has a good reason to allow it. That’s the crux.

He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Vital parishes built on the Bible and the sacraments, committed to evangelizing their neighborhoods, will continue to flourish. The poor will be served, the sick healed, and the dying comforted. None of that is going to change, and I’d wager that it’s going to get better.

Lord Snow wants to take my place now.’ He sneered. ‘I’d have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.’ ‘I’ll take that wager, Ser Alliser’, Jon said. ‘I’d love to see Ghost juggle.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I’ve got 20 quid riding on you

A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared… then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.

Wagers and pacts are made with angels – or with devils.

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.