The Wager Of Faith

Seventeenth-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal... struggled with issues of meaninglessness. Pascal concluded that faith sometimes resembles a wager. He told his friends, "If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything."

- Philip Yancey in "The Bible Jesus Read"