I believe in order that I may understand..

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

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

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 understan….

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 ….

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice..

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 ….

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death..

Disasters teach us humility..

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

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

Idleness is the enemy of the soul..

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

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

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 vis….

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

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 c….

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

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

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..