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| If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God | | Evil; God; Life; Living | |
| If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy | | Happiness | |
| If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...? | | Knowledge | |
| If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. | | Achievement | |
| If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself | | Uncategorized | |
| If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. | | Uncategorized | |
| Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable | | Uncategorized | |
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| Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. | | Imagination | |
| Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. | | Imagination | |
| Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that? | | Uncategorized | |
| In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. | | Action | |
| In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. | | Faith | |
| Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God. | | God | |
| It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart | | God; Heart | |
| It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of truth are powerless to stop violence, and serve only | | War | |
