Quotes on Canterbury

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.

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.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

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

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

I believe in order that I may understand.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.