It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

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

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.

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

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

I believe in order that I may understand.