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.

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

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

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

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

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 do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.