St Anselm Quotes & Sayings

Love is a wordless unspoken poem — Tarif Naaz

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

One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment. — Joshua Ferris

Outreach begins with a well-taught laity, stirred by the great truths of Scripture. — Michael S. Horton

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing. — Ice-T

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are. — Charles Eisenstein

Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects. — W. J. T. Mitchell

An affair should be like a password. You should have one, but you shouldn't let the world know about it! — Toffee

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. — Marian Wright Edelman

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned. — Sheldon B. Kopp

Everybody has problems. — Tanya Tucker

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

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. — Ambrose Bierce

In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate approach for the arts: to create a work that is entrancing. — Reza Abdoh