» The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
» The war existing between the senses and reason.
» We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
» Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
» Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
» 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.
» Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
» I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
» The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
» I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.