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

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.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

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

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

Disasters teach us humility.