Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

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.

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.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

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

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.