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Italian-English archbishop and saint (b. 1033), Death: 21-4-1109 Anselm of Canterbury Quotes
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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

'I do not search for comprehension in order to accept, but I accept in order to comprehend. For I am sure of this: unless I agree, I will not grasp.'
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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

God takes His time to hear our prayers not because He has no intention of answering them; but so that He can grant us a greater abundance in response to our broadened wishes.
3.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
Anselm of Canterbury

Eliminate clemency and you have no hope of salvation. Abolish autonomy and you have no potential for redemption.
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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
Anselm of Canterbury

Divinity is that, the highest conceivable.
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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
Anselm of Canterbury

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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I believe in order that I may understand.
Anselm of Canterbury

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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

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Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
Anselm of Canterbury

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

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Disasters teach us humility.
Anselm of Canterbury

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

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

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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

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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

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Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.
Anselm of Canterbury

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

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.
Anselm of Canterbury

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

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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

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