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.

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

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

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.

Disasters teach us humility.

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.