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God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.
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.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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.
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for.
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
I believe in order that I may understand.
Come now, insignificant man, fly for a moment from your affairs, escape for a little while from the tumult of your thoughts. Put aside now your weighty cares and leave your wearisome toils. Abandon yourself for a little to God and rest for a little in Him.
Disasters teach us humility.
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.
It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
I do not endeavor, O Lord, to penetrate thy sublimity, for in no wise do I compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.
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.
Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.