Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

— Anselm of Canterbury

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the…

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

If it can be conceived at all - it must exist.

— Anselm Of Canterbury

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in…

— Anselm of Canterbury

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the…

— Anselm of Canterbury

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can…

— Anselm of Canterbury

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He…

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

— Anselm of Canterbury

I believe in order that I may understand.

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this:…

— Anselm of Canterbury

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee!…

— Anselm of Canterbury

“Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect…

— Anselm of Canterbury

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

— Anselm of Canterbury

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind…

— Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it;…

— Anselm of Canterbury

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so…

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance…

— Anselm of Canterbury

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

— Anselm of Canterbury

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