Quotes & Sayings About Anselm

Threatening the High Warlock. Better and better. Maybe we should head down to vampire clan headquarters and punch Anselm Nightshade in the face. — Cassandra Clare

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

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result. — Anselm Kiefer

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history. — Anselm Kiefer

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

We do not simply decide to believe, having been convinced by factual evidence. We first grasp the truth, being enabled by the Holy Spirit, and then the external evidence for the truth suddenly takes on new significance. Thus we 'understand' by faith.

Anselm said, 'I believe in order that I may understand' whereas Abelard said, 'I seek to understand in order that I may believe. — Arthur C. Custance

One of my young married students has suffered all her life because she was taught in her Church that she was born so sinful that the only way the wrath of God the Father could be appeased enough for him to forgive all her horrible sinfulness was for God the Son to die in agony on the cross. Without his suffering, the Father would remain angry forever with all his Creation.
Many of us have had a least part of that horror thrust on us at one time or other inour childhood. For many reasons I never went to Sunday School, so I was spared having a lot of peculiar teaching to unlearn. It's only lately that I've discovered that it was no less a person than St. Anselm who saw the atonement in terms of appeasement of an angry God, from which follows immediately the heresy that Jesus came to save us from God the Father. — Madeleine L'Engle

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

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories. — Anselm Kiefer

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all. — Anselm Kiefer

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing. — Anselm Kiefer

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

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. — Anselm Kiefer

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. — Anselm Kiefer

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else. — Anselm Kiefer

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will. — Anselm Kiefer

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment. — Anselm Kiefer

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

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

Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight. — Thomas Watson

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

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce 'proofs' of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors - Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' - but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions. — Bertrand Russell

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

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

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. — Anselm Kiefer

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

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. — Anselm Kiefer

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. — Anselm Kiefer

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion. — Alvin Plantinga

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are. — Johnny Rich

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

The Anselmian call for "faith seeking understanding" may start and gather it's energy not in rational study of past theological points but in the pursuit to make sense of our concrete and lived experiences of Jesus who finds us in a hole, knocks us from our horse, or comes to our daughter in her sleep. — Andrew Root

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. — Anselm Feurbah

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

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

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

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. — Anselm Kiefer

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living. — Anselm Kiefer

There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder. — Anselm J. McLaurin

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

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer

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

Buying art is not understanding art. — Anselm Kiefer

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. — Anselm Kiefer

Theology is anthropology. — Anselm Feuerbach

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part. — Anselm Kiefer

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. — Anselm Kiefer

each morning we're born again
of yesterday nothing remains
what's left began today — Anselm Hollo

I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces. — Anselm Kiefer

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God — Anselm Kiefer

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle. — Anton Corbijn

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

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art. — Anselm Kiefer

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

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow. — Anselm Kiefer

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 possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists! — Richard Dawkins

slow it is
a slow business

to grow a few words
to say love — Anselm Hollo

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.
— Anselm Of Canterbury

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. — Anselm Kiefer

Is this Tree of Life a God one could worship? Pray to? Fear? Probably not. But it did make the ivy twine and the sky so blue, so perhaps the song I love tells a truth after all. The Tree of Life is neither perfect nor infinite in space or time, but it is actual, and if it is not Anselm's "Being greater than which nothing can be conceived," it is surely a being that is greater than anything any of us will ever conceive of in detail worthy of its detail. Is something sacred? Yes, say I with Nietzsche. I could not pray to it, but I can stand in affirmation of its magnificence. This world is sacred. — Daniel C. Dennett

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

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven, — Anselm Kiefer

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them. — Anselm Kiefer

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer

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

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose. — Anselm Kiefer

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

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral ... it is a place between heaven and earth. — Anselm Kiefer

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

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding. — William Lane Craig

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