"I have written the little work that follows……" — Anselm of Canterbury
"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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Anselm of Canterbury
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13 Quotes by Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury has 13 quotes on this site.
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Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be…
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our…
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
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For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I…
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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…
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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention…
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A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may…
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O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near…
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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you…
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If it can be conceived at all - it must exist.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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