Anselm Of Canterbury Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Idleness is the enemy of the soul. — Anselm Of Canterbury

And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not so to be understood, as if, should God will something inconsistent, it would be right because He willed it. For it does not follow that if God would lie it would be right to lie, but rather that he were not God. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. — Anselm Of Canterbury

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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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Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

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. — Anselm Of Canterbury

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only. — Anselm Of Canterbury

I believe in order that I may understand. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility. — Anselm Of Canterbury