Quote by C.S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the

Summary

This quote highlights the idea that people tend to not take things seriously unless there is something valuable at stake. The analogy drawn from bridge-playing suggests that belief in God or the absence thereof should be approached with a similar seriousness. It argues that the true seriousness of one's stance on matters of ultimate importance, such as the existence of God or the nature of the afterlife, can only be realized when the stakes are raised to the utmost degree, when one's entire worldly possessions, or even life itself, are put on the line.

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