Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

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.

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

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

I believe in order that I may understand.

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.