Quotes about Stake

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

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

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

At the place of execution he kissed the chains that were to bind him to the stake.

Shall I disdain to suffer at the stake, when my Redeemer did not refuse to suffer the most vile death upon the cross for me?

She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.