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

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.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

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.

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

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.