Anselm Of Canterbury Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

#4. 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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#5. Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

Paul Kurtz

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

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#7. I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

Zooey Deschanel

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

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#9. Perhaps we are able to see only that which we are prepared to see, and in our culture, the cost of insight is an uncertainty that threatens our already unstable sense of order and requires a constant questioning of accepted assumptions. Ralph Ellison (1995a, 31)

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#10. We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Samuel Johnson

#11. 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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#12. Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

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#22. 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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#23. Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

Shahrukh Khan

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

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#25. 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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#26. Disasters teach us humility.

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

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#28. The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt

#29. When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Brooke Astor

#30. Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

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#31. Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.

Frederick Lenz

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

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#33. Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again

Munia Khan

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

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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