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.

I believe in order that I may understand.

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

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.

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.

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

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