30 Quotes by Anselm of Canterbury

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.

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

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.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

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

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.

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

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

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