The leaders of the American Revolution expressly staked their lives, their fortunes and their "sacred honor" in signing the Declaration of Independence. They were noble gamblers, working for the welfare of their fellows.
Perhaps gambling is only a perverted form of intelligent ambition—we are all natural gamblers because we have within us the quality which makes us willing to risk our own comfort, security and present happiness for a result that seems better worth while.
The universality of the gambling instinct in human beings is certainly worthy of our study.
NO MAN UNDERSTANDS IRON HOW CAN WE HOPE TO UNDERSTAND GOD?
Is there laughter in heaven—or can nothing move the eternal heavenly calm?
If mirth exists among the perpetually blissful, how must the angels laugh when in idle moments they listen to our speculations concerning the Divinity? They peer down at us as we look at ants dragging home a fragment of dead caterpillar. They hear us say things like this:
If God exists, why does He not reveal himself to ME?
How could God exist before He created the world? Force cannot exist or demonstrate its existence without matter. How could a creator exist except with creation around him?
Where did He live before He made heaven?
If He is all-powerful, could He in five seconds make a six months' old calf? If He made it in five seconds it would not be six months old.