Quotes by Anselm Of Canterbury - Page 1

Disasters teach us humility.
Anselm Of Canterbury / Saint
Disaster
Humility
Teach
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
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Enemy
Manual Labor
Soul
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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Faith
Believe
Order
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Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.
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Lust
Pleasure
Procreation
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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
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God
Canterbury
Greater
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
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Canterbury
Justice
Mercy
Punish
Spare
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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Forgiveness
Sin
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It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
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Impossible
Religious
Soul
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And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
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God
Believe
Greater
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Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.
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Adversity
Praise
Prosperity
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
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Pardon
Repentance
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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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Free Will
Grace
Remove
Saved
Whereby
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Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
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Appropriate
Owed
Thus
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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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Catholic
Intention
May
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Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
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God
Lord
Omnipotence
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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God
Greatness
Lord
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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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Giving
Mind
Prayer
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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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Believe
Canterbury
Order
Believe Will I Believe
Will
Understand
Seek
Unless
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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.
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Fitting
Purity
Should
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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.
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Ability
Illiterate
Seeking
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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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Work
Believe
Mind
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But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.
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Causes
Made
Problem
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There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.
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Forgiveness
Doe
Purpose
World
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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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Life
Truth
Prayer
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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
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Believe
Heart
Understanding
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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.
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Art
Blessed
Moving
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