Quotes from Anselm of Canterbury

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.