Anselm of Canterbury quotes
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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.”
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“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”
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“I believe in order that I may understand.”
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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.”
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“It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.”
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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 CanterburySource : "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.
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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 CanterburySource : St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com
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“God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 CanterburySource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.
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“Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.”
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