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.

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

I believe in order that I may understand.

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.

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

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

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