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.
- 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
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
- 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
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
- Anselm of Canterbury
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
- 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
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.
- 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
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
- Anselm of Canterbury
A being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist.
- Anselm of Canterbury