Quotes about Wager

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

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