Quotes from Anselm of Canterbury

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

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

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.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I believe in order that I may understand.