Anselm of Canterbury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Prayer #Giving #Mind
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Justice #Mercy
I believe in order that I may understand.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Faith #Believe #Order
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Believe #Order #I Believe
It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Religious #Soul #Impossible
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

#Purity #Fitting #Should
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

#Art #Moving #Blessed
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#God
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

#Life #Prayer #Love You
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

#Believe #Mind #Roles
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

#Catholic #May #Intention
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

#Ability #Illiterate
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Grace #Free Will

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