Disasters teach us humility.

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

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

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.

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.