Quotes from Anselm of Canterbury
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
— Anselm of Canterbury
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
— Anselm of Canterbury
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.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
— Anselm of Canterbury
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.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
— Anselm of Canterbury
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
— Anselm of Canterbury
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
— Anselm of Canterbury
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.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
— Anselm of Canterbury
A being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist.
— Anselm of Canterbury