List of Anselm of Canterbury Quotes

It Is, Therefore, Not Proper For God Thus To Pass Over Sin Unpunished.

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.

Therefore Lord God, You Are More Truly Omnipotent, Because You Have No Power Through Impotence And Nothing Can Be Against You.

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.

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.

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.

And Indeed We Believe You [god] To Be Something Than Which A Greater Cannot Be Conceived.

Lust Desireth Not Procreation, But Pleasure Only.

Therefore Lord, Not Only Are You That Than Which A Greater Cannot Be Thought But You Are Also Something Greater Than Can Be Thought.

It Is Impossible To Save One's Soul Without Devotion To Mary And Without Her Protection.

Spare Me Through Your Mercy, Do Not Punish Me Through Your Justice.

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.