Anselm Of Canterbury Quotes

#1. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

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#2. But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

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#3. It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

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#4. God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

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#5. Disasters teach us humility.

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#6. It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

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#7. Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

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#8. Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

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#9. I believe in order that I may understand.

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#10. God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

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#11. Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

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#12. There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

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#13. A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

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#14. Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

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#15. Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for.

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#16. For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.

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#17. God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

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#18. Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

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#19. Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

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#20. Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

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#21. I have written the little work that follows ... in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

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#22. God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

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#23. God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

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#24. God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.

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#25. And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

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#26. A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness ... Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

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